{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-314","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>Caesarius of Arles</b>: Coworkers of God are those who, when once they see the poison of pride creeping into the heart of a brother, with all haste try to destroy it with the medicine of true humility.<br/><i>— SERMON 233.6</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.\"</p><p>Seest thou how to them also he hath assigned no small work, having before laid it down that the whole is of God? For since he is always persuading them to obey those that have the rule over them, on this account he abstains from making very light of their teachers.</p><p>\"Ye are God's husbandry.\"</p><p>For because he had said, \"I planted,\" he kept to the metaphor. Now if ye be God's husbandry, it is right that you should be called not from those who cultivate you, but from God. For the field is not called the husbandman's, but the householder's.</p><p>\"Ye are God's building.\"</p><p>Again, the building is not the workman's, but the master's. Now if ye be a building, ye must not be forced asunder: since this were no building. If ye be a farm, ye must not be divided, but be walled in with a single fence, namely, unanimity.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 8</i></p><p><b>Shepherd of Hermas</b>: \"But who are these, Lady, that are white and round, and yet do not fit into the building of the tower?\" She answered and said, \"How long will you be foolish and stupid, and continue to put every kind of question and understand nothing? These are those who have faith indeed, but they have also the riches of this world. When, therefore, tribulation comes, on account of their riches and business they deny the Lord.\" I answered and said to her, \"When, then, will they be useful for the building, Lady?\" \"When the riches that now seduce them have been circumscribed, then will they be of use to God. For as a round stone cannot become square unless portions be cut off and cast away, so also those who are rich in this world cannot be useful to the Lord unless their riches be cut down. Learn this first from your own case. When you were rich, you were useless; but now you are useful and fit for life. Be ye useful to God; for you also will be used as one of these stones.\"<br/><i>— Shepherd of Hermas, Vision 3</i></p><p><b>Theodore of Mopsuestia</b>: Paul calls us God's fellow workers, not his servants or slaves.<br/><i>— PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"fdd3f81f63ee86328aa52182ef1103997947369ce36475f3782a023b881aa778","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":314,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"8400d5ff99158ef9d7db7529723064a7abfa61c1910c51e34f3779ba49903ac9","translator":null,"work":null}