{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4538","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":20,"chapter_to":20,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The second commandment: \"You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for whoever takes the name of the Lord his God in vain will not be purified.\" The name of the Lord our God Jesus Christ is Truth: he himself said, \"I am the truth.\" So truth purifies; futility defiles. And because whoever speaks the truth speaks from what is God's—for \"whoever speaks falsehood speaks from what is his own\"—to speak the truth is to speak reasonably, whereas to speak futility is to make a noise rather than to speak. Rightly, because the second commandment means love of the truth, the opposite of that is love of futility.<br/><i>— SERMON 8.5</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: You are told \"Do not take the name of the Lord your God in vain\"; do not regard Christ as a creature because for your sake he put on the creature. And you, you despise him who is equal to the Father and one with the Father.<br/><i>— SERMON 9.3</i></p><p><b>Eusebius of Caesarea</b>: Here too the Lord himself teaches in the passage before us about another Lord. For he says, \"I am the Lord thy God,\" and adds, \"You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.\" The second Lord is here mystically instructing his servant about the Father, that is to say, the God of the universe. And you could find many other similar instances occurring in Holy Scripture, in which God speaks as if in a second voice about another. The Lord himself speaks as if about another.<br/><i>— PROOF OF THE GOSPEL 5.16.243</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Although making a variety of suppositions about him, we all know something of God but do not all know what he is, for few indeed and fewer (if I may say so) than few are they who grasp his holiness in all things. Thus we are rightly taught to pray that our concept of God may be hallowed among us. Thus we shall see his holiness in creating, in providing, in judging, in choosing and abandoning, in accepting and rejecting, in rewarding and punishing each one according to his merits.In these activities and others like them is found, so I may say, the stamp of the personal character of God, that which in my opinion is called in Scripture the \"name of God.\" So in Exodus: \"You shall not take the name of your God in vain.\"<br/><i>— ON PRAYER 24.2-3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"392f5018bbbdff79ba7d92b357291255fe82557942fa00a8b67582f28e86bf67","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4538,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"74deb7141b444601a364031959d54962bebdb1a26aefc4f49651fa28688e0081","translator":null,"work":null}