{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5957","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":28,"chapter_to":28,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: Let us listen also unto the words which Jacob spake in that country in which God was revealed unto him, for from them we may especially see his simplicity: \"Verily there is the Lord in this place, and I knew it not.\" Didst thou think, O simple Jacob, that God was limited only to the country in which thy parents lived, and that He did not reveal Himself or make Himself manifest in every place to those who are worthy of His revelation?<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 4 -- On Faith: First Discourse on Simplicity</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: JACOB'S LADDER, FIGURE OF THE TABERNACLE. — And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and said, The Lord is in this place, and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How fearful is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven . These words contain a prophecy, for there it was to be the tabernacle, which the Lord had set up among men among his first people. We must understand by the word gate of heaven, that the tabernacle is for the men of faith as an avenue that leads them to the kingdom of heaven. [<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON GENESIS, Q. 82 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9a73e4bb72f0d6eb87623ef049029d50b1179f14af183724568cdd294a42b1ff","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5957,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"9c6c8032adc7b86b9eba4b36fd6704fcc5fb74ab03cea5e389b7cce82aca34da","translator":null,"work":null}