{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4890","native_reference":{"book_number":330,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: \"And the spirit entered into me after he spoke to me, and set me upon my feet.\" Behold, the divine voice commanded the prophet lying down to rise. But he could not rise at all unless the spirit of almighty God had entered into him, because from the grace of almighty God we can indeed strive toward good works, but we cannot fulfill them unless he who commands also helps. Thus Paul, when he admonished his disciples, saying, \"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,\" immediately added who was working these very good things in them, saying: \"For it is God who works in you both to will and to accomplish according to his good pleasure.\" Hence it is that the Truth itself says to the disciples: \"Without me you can do nothing.\"<br/><i>— Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 9</i></p><p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: But in these matters it must be considered that if our good deeds are gifts of almighty God in such a way that there is nothing of ours in them, why do we seek eternal reward as if for merits? But if they are ours in such a way that they are not gifts of almighty God, why do we give thanks to almighty God for them? But it must be known that our evil deeds are ours alone; our good deeds, however, are both almighty God's and ours, because he by inspiring goes before us so that we may will, and by helping follows after so that we may not will in vain, but may be able to fulfill what we will. Therefore, with grace going before and good will following, that which is the gift of almighty God becomes our merit. Paul explains this well in a brief statement, saying: \"I labored more than all of them.\" Lest he seem to have attributed to his own virtue what he had done, he added: \"Yet not I, but the grace of God with me.\" For because he was preceded by the heavenly gift, he recognized himself as if a stranger to his own good work, saying: \"Yet not I.\" But because the preceding grace had made his free will inclined to good, and by that free will he followed that same grace in his work, he added: \"But the grace of God with me.\" As if he were saying: In good work I labored, not I, but also I. For in this respect, that I was preceded by the Lord's gift alone, not I; but in this respect, that I followed the gift with my will, also I. Therefore, having briefly said these things against Pelagius and Coelestius, let us return to the order of exposition.<br/><i>— Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 9</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Vers. 2.) And the Spirit entered into me after He spoke to me and set me on my feet. And I heard Him speaking to me, saying: Son of man. LXX: And the Spirit came upon me, and took me up, and raised me, and set me on my feet: and I heard Him speaking to me, and He said to me: Son of man. The divine word had commanded the prophet and had said: Stand on your feet (Psalm XXXIX, 3); but he could not stand without the help of God and the coming of the Holy Spirit: therefore, the Spirit enters into him, or assumes and raises him up, so that he may stand firmly and be able to say: He set my feet on a rock (Ephesians VI, 14). We do not read of any sinner standing, but it is said to the saints: Therefore, gird your loins. However, the sinner deserves to hear what is written in Deuteronomy: The sole of your foot shall have no steadiness (Deut. XXVIII, 56) . It is frequently said to Ezekiel: Son of man (Matth. VIII, 20) , and rarely to Daniel: both referring to the one who said: The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head, He consoles the captive people, and draws them towards repentance.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ezekiel</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2b561e403b34d85ddb980b6f1d3a167d35976de2b606a6a202f914e28716b197","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4890,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a87ca5a09a5a8b60d2439fe069e76c1dffb65befd8bcd6410311c6ddfd44e479","translator":null,"work":null}