{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3370","native_reference":{"book_number":370,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Nor does it escape my notice that heretics have been prone to object that the Holy Spirit appears to be a creature, because many of them use as an argument for establishing their impiety that passage of Amos, where he spoke of the blowing of the wind, as the words of the prophet made clear. For you read thus: \"Behold, I am he that establishes the thunder and creates the wind and declare unto man his Christ, that make light and mist, and ascend upon high places, the Lord God Almighty is his name.\"<br/><i>— On the Holy Spirit, Book 2</i></p><p><b>Ambrose of Milan</b>: But if any one thinks that the word of the prophet is to be explained with reference to the Holy Spirit, because it is said, \"declaring unto men his Christ,\" he will explain it more easily of the Lord's Sun of justice. For if it troubles you that he said Spirit, and therefore you think that this cannot well be explained of the mystery of the taking of human nature, read on in the Scriptures, and you will find that all agrees most excellently with Christ. Of [Christ] it is thoroughly fitting to think that he established the thunders by his coming, that is, the force and sound of the heavenly Scriptures, by the thunder, as it were, of which our minds are struck with astonishment, so that we learn to be afraid and pay respect to the heavenly oracles.<br/><i>— On the Holy Spirit, Book 2</i></p><p><b>Cosmas Indicopleustes</b>: This is Amos the third in order, who also was privileged to tell of the coming of the Lord Christ and in these words: Lo! I am he that confirms the thunder and that creates the wind and that announces to men his Anointed.<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 5</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: When Christ came, the people of the old covenant denied him, but the devils confessed him. His forefather David was not ignorant of him when he said, \"I will place a lamp for my anointed.\" Some have interpreted \"lamp\" as the splendor of prophecy; others have understood by the lamp the flesh he assumed of the Virgin, according to the words of the apostle: \"But we carry this treasure in vessels of clay.\" The prophet was not ignorant of him when he said, \"And declaring his Christ to men.\" Moses also knew him, and Isaiah and Jeremiah as well. None of the prophets was ignorant of him. Even the devils acknowledged him, for he rebuked them, and Scripture adds, \"Because they knew that he was the Christ.\"<br/><i>— CATECHETICAL LECTURE 10:15</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f0db4fb7f3ea0c493bdaa9d93a314b0649744d7f39676edb19b16a484ceff79d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3370,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d39e95ab09f14693d3a56f3173ffc3d6ba25c27e001ee0cc4bfeb716f2ead0d4","translator":null,"work":null}