{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2358","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"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>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: Ye have done well in receiving Philo, and Gaius, and Agathopus, who, being the servants of Christ, have followed me for the sake of God, and who greatly bless the Lord in your behalf, because ye have in every way refreshed them. None of those things which ye have done to them shall be passed by without being reckoned unto you. \"The Lord grant\" to you \"that ye may find mercy of the Lord in that day!\" May my spirit be for you, and my bonds, which ye have not despised or been ashamed of. Wherefore, neither shall Jesus Christ, our perfect hope, be ashamed of you.<br/><i>— Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans</i></p><p><b>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: Salute Cassian, my host, and his most serious-minded partner in life, and their very dear children, to whom may \"God grant that they find mercy of the Lord in that day,\" on account of their ministrations to us, whom also I commend to thee in Christ. Salute by name all the faithful in Christ that are at Laodicea. Do not neglect those at Tarsus, but look after them steadily, confirming them in the Gospel. I salute in the Lord, Maris the bishop of Neapolis, near Anazarbus. Salute thou also Mary my daughter, distinguished both for gravity and erudition, as also \"the Church which is in her house.\" May my soul be in place of hers: she is the very pattern of pious women. May the Father of Christ, by His only-begotten Son, preserve thee in good health, and of high repute in all things, to a very old age, for the benefit of the Church of God! Farewell in the Lord, and pray thou that I may be perfected.<br/><i>— Epistle of Pseudo-Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: (may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day); and you yourself know how many things he ministered to me at Ephesus better than I do.</p><p>may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord. Those who hold the opinions of Marcion leap over [ἐπιπηδῶσι]3 the Scripture, as if there were two Lords, but it says the Lord elsewhere. \"But for us there is one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things.\" (1 Cor. 8:6) What then shall we say? This construction is common in the divine Scripture. Just as it is said, Abraham said, \"Abraham shall not enter,\" as if he said, \"May the Lord grant him to find mercy with him.\" And if both the Father and the Son are indicated here, accept it, it is not even inappropriate. For both the Father and the Son are Lord, and the Spirit is Lord, but the one Lord is revealed in the three persons. \"The Lord said to my Lord.\" (Ps. 110:1) That is, it is clarified to say thus the holy substances, as there: \"The Lord rained fire and brimstone from the Lord.\" (Gen. 19:24)</p><p>to find mercy. But if Onesiphorus needs mercy in order to be saved, how much more do we?</p><p>he ministered to me at Ephesus. He always served, in Ephesus, in Rome. For the earnest man must always be an example in works.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: \" Similarly, concerning Onesiphorus, does he also write to Timothy: \"The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy in that day; \" unto which day and time he charges Timothy himself \"to keep what had been committed to his care, without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ: which in His times He shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,\" speaking of (Him as) God It is to these same times that Peter in the Acts refers, when he says: \"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets.<br/><i>— On the Resurrection of the Flesh</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"806d341132676a4cd8afe4dee3af4c907ba10a41316b90eb51331f0dcacd8a01","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2358,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6e2738f2dcdb143e3e6d270d1fc9cc0736112441e2c94c0dfbf5373039cd6b52","translator":null,"work":null}