{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6685","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>Oecumenius</b>: \"and having tasted the good word of God.\" The teaching concerning the mind of Christ.<br/>\"the powers of the age to come.\" For we shall all give an account of the words we have lived by, and both punishment and rest are everlasting. For in these things is the power of the age to come. That is, the seriousness [ἀῤῥαβῶνα] of the coming age, namely, faith in Christ.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"the powers of the age to come.\" Powers of the coming age. That there will certainly be a resurrection, and that we shall all give an account of the life we have lived, and that both punishment and rest are inescapable, and such things, for these indeed are the powers of the coming age. Or that the pledge of the coming age is faith in Christ. Powers of the coming age, Instead of what the future age can teach. For those who have tasted, in common, what has been taken figuratively [τροπικῶς], signifying, those who have learned, have been instructed. What then can the future do, and what is its necessity and work? Because in it each finds the reward of what he has done, since there is no end either to the punishment in it, nor to the happiness, because then the unfailing judgment and the just will be revealed more clearly, and many other things. Therefore, those who have learned these things along with the others, he says, and having fallen away, it is impossible, and thereafter.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Photios I of Constantinople</b>: \"And the powers of the age to come,\" which is to say, \"having learned what things the coming age is capable of.\" For \"having tasted\" means \"having learned\" or \"having been instructed,\" as it commonly means, being taken in a figurative manner. But what can the coming age do? And what are its needs and work? In that age each one finds the reward for the things one did; that neither the punishment nor the blessing in that age has an end; that then whatever deed was not unmindful of the judge but was righteous will appear, etc. He says that for those who have learned these things with others and then have fallen away, it is impossible to bring to repentance.<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 6.5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"85dc123f2a5796cd0f7b720439c2e9e9bbf299639cdb5df707c7b2342207626c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6685,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c310a11c34ff40bf52074681dcdb75a01f19a3198531137220ef184e7e1caef2","translator":null,"work":null}