{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3469","native_reference":{"book_number":580,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"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>Aphrahat the Persian Sage</b>: Let us think upon the things which are above, on the heavenly things, and meditate on them, where Christ has been lifted up and exalted. But let us forsake the world which is not ours, that we may arrive at the place to which we have been invited. Let us raise up our eyes on high, that we may see the splendour which shall be revealed. Let us lift up our wings as eagles, that we may see the body there where it is.<br/><i>— DEMONSTRATIONS 6:1</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Because, if even the inner man certainly is renewed day by day, yet undoubtedly it is old before it is renewed. For that is done inwardly of which the same apostle speaks: \"Put off the old man, and put on the new;\" which he goes on to explain by saying, \"Wherefore, putting away lying, speak every man truth.\" But where is lying put away, unless inwardly, that he who speaketh the truth from his heart may inhabit the holy hill of God? But the resurrection of the body of the Lord is shown to belong to the mystery of our own inner resurrection, where, after He had risen, He says to the woman, \"Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father;\" with which mystery the apostle's words agree, where he says, \"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God; set your thoughts on things above.\" For not to touch Christ, unless when He had ascended to the Father, means not to have thoughts of Christ after a fleshly manner.<br/><i>— On the Trinity 4.3.6</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. But when Christ, who is your life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.\".<br/>Give heed to the things that are above, not to those things which are on the earth; for ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. But when Christ your life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory.\"<br/><i>— Treatise X On Jealousy and Envy</i></p><p><b>Isaac of Nineveh</b>: What is the resurrection of the soul, of which the apostle speaks, saying, \"If then you have been raised with Christ\"? When the apostle said, \"God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined into our hearts,\" he showed this resurrection to be the exodus from the old state which in the likeness of Sheol incarcerates a man so that the light of the gospel will not shine mystically upon him. This is a breath of life through hope in the resurrection, and by it the dawning of divine wisdom shines in his heart, so that a man should become new, having nothing of the old man. Then the image of Christ is formed in us through the Spirit of wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of him.</p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"If then ye were raised together with Christ.\" He brings them together, having above established that He died. Therefore he saith, \"If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above.\" No observances are there. \"Where Christ is seated on the right hand of God.\" Wonderful! Whither hath he led our minds aloft! How hath he filled them with mighty aspiration! It was not enough to say, \"the things that are above,\" nor yet, \"where Christ is,\" but what? \"seated on the right hand of God.\" From that point he was preparing them henceforward to see the earth.<br/><i>— Homily on Colossians 7</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: In so many words he says: \"Since ye are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.\" Accordingly, it is in our mind that he shows that we rise (with Christ), since it is by this alone that we are as yet able to reach to heavenly objects.<br/><i>— On the Resurrection of the Flesh</i></p><p><b>Victorinus of Pettau</b>: \"And I saw thrones, and them that sate upon them, and judgment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of them that were slain on account of the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast nor his image, nor have received his writing on their forehead or in their hand; and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years: the rest of them lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.\" There are two resurrections. But the first resurrection is now of the souls that are by the faith, which does not permit men to pass over to the second death. Of this resurrection the apostle says: \"If ye have risen with Christ, seek those things which are above.\"<br/><i>— Victorinus Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7cee1a6f9c4fb82b668fa75d42dd323d1462ba21b020564c5147bc5d59c9ba8b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3469,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"21da01e7e91d68b078801c0a63efa298853ecdeab21b96476768e0ddbfa8b5e1","translator":null,"work":null}