{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-788","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"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>Clement of Alexandria ((as quoted by Cassiodorus))</b>: \"For you,\" he says, \"who are kept by the power of God, by faith and contemplation, to receive the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.\" Hence it appears that the soul is not naturally immortal; but is made immortal by the grace of God, through faith and righteousness, and by knowledge. \"Of which salvation,\" he says, \"the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,\" and what follows. It is declared by this that the prophets spake with wisdom, and that the Spirit of Christ was in them, according to the possession of Christ, and in subjection to Christ. For God works through archangels and kindred angels, who are called spirits of Christ.<br/><i>— From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: Unbelief is a horrible and wicked thing, but faith is the highest good, for it is the harbinger of our entire salvation.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls.<br/>Therefore, in order that you may be known in such a way, also receiving such glory, show the briefest endurance in time, and you will have the highest goal of your purpose.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Peter</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: If it is the mind which prays and sings in the spirit and the mind which receives perfection and salvation, how is it that Peter says: \"As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls\"? If the soul neither prays nor sings with the spirit, how shall it hope for salvation?<br/><i>— ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 2.8.3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3727ada402ec0f4e74abe8d0fe6d2301d8386698f85e82cd092e35f181b60cac","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":788,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"383ac57900a3275f9f7e92e97c754d0e2e65b734dc99e1d0ff34180f50fdec2b","translator":null,"work":null}