{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6506","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Apostolic Constitutions</b>: Therefore, God has opened an entrance to all the sons of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in order that they may be in the faith of profession towards Him.<br/><i>— CONSTITUTIONS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For He is faithful that promised.\" \"That promised\" what? That we are to depart thither and enter into the kingdom. Be then in nothing over-curious, nor demand reasonings. Our religion needs faith.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 19</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"let us hold fast the confession.\"Let us hold fast, he says, the confession of our hope, firm and without wavering. What hope? To hope through the blood of Christ for entrance into heaven. To have our sins forgiven through Him. To be made worthy of adoption through Him.<br/>\"For faithful,\" that is, \"true is He who promised.\" And what did He promise? That we would enter into His kingdom; \"for I will,\" He says, \"that where I am, there these may be also.\" (Jn. 16:24) For \"these\" He spoke of the faithful.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1f055cb444da93f93083c4680a0d34f59b6ffd04b2806a4a9274a9434d08f8ec","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6506,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d09cfc5a9a2f6c1ccf1c21bccee872836d3d7c6344664734d5db6a4a64f2c5ab","translator":null,"work":null}