{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4223","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>Cosmas Indicopleustes ((quoting John Chrysostom, Commentary on Ephesians))</b>: In all wisdom and prudence, he says, having made known unto us the mystery of his will, as if one should say: he made known to us the things in his heart. For this is the mystery which is full of all wisdom and prudence. For what seekest thou that is greater than this wisdom? Those who were nothing worth—even those He found out, that He might lead them to great riches. What is there that can compare with this inventive skill? He that was an enemy, He that was hated: this very man has on a sudden been raised on high, and not only so, but at this particular time, and this was done in wisdom also. And that this was done by the Cross, it would require a long discussion to show. What a matter of wisdom this was, and how it has made us wise!<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 10</i></p><p><b>Gaius Marius Victorinus</b>: The riches of God are heaped upon us in that he makes us something better than we were at the beginning of our existence.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE Ephesians 1.1.8</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: That is to say, Making us wise and prudent, in that which is true wisdom, and that which is true prudence. Strange! what friendship! For He telleth us His secrets; the mysteries, saith he, of His will, as if one should say, He hath made known to us the things that are in His heart. For here is indeed the mystery which is full of all wisdom and prudence. For what will you mention equal to this wisdom! Those that were worth nothing, it hath discovered a way of raising them to wealth and abundance. What can equal this wise contrivance? He that was an enemy, he that was hated, he is in a moment lifted up on high. And not this only,-but, yet more, that it should be done at this particular time, this again was the work of wisdom; and that it should be done by means of the Cross. It were matter of long discourse here to point out, how all this was the work of wisdom, and how He had made us wise. And therefore he repeats again the words,</p><p>\"According to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him.\"</p><p>That is to say, this He desired, this He travailed for, as one might say, that He might be able to reveal to us the mystery. What mystery? That He would have man seated up on high. And this hath come to pass.<br/><i>— Homily 1 on Ephesians</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"8b2dfef713f1fa1a12d7c467b6a82364483ae6729f76667286fd56c8a3d22594","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4223,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"83581f6593418b54e026c322d91b63874ab9ed7abb56c77daf03900a67adaede","translator":null,"work":null}