{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-137","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: There is one work because there is one mystery, there is one baptism because there was one death for the world. There is a unity of outlook which cannot be separated.<br/><i>— On the Holy Spirit 1.3.45</i></p><p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Paul is teaching that we should not treat anyone with contempt, nor should we regard anyone as perfect.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: \"For ye are all the children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.\" There are not, then, in the same Word some \"illuminated (gnostics); and some animal (or natural) men;\" but all who have abandoned the desires of the flesh are equal and spiritual before the Lord. And again he writes in another place: \"For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, and we have all drunk of one cup.\"<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 1</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: There are not, then, in the same Word some \"illuminated (gnostics); and some animal (or natural) men;\" but all who have abandoned the desires of the flesh are equal and spiritual before the Lord. And again he writes in another place: \"For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, and we have all drunk of one cup.\"<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 1</i></p><p><b>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: There is then one God and Father, and not two or three; One who is; and there is no other besides Him, the only true [God]. For \"the Lord thy God,\" saith [the Scripture], \"is one Lord.\" And again, \"Hath not one God created us? Have we not all one Father? And there is also one Son, God the Word. For \"the only-begotten Son,\" saith [the Scripture], \"who is in the bosom of the Father.\" And again, \"One Lord Jesus Christ.\" And in another place, \"What is His name, or what His Son's name, that we may know?\" And there is also one Paraclete. For \"there is also,\" saith [the Scripture], \"one Spirit,\" since \"we have been called in one hope of our calling.\" And again, \"We have drunk of one Spirit,\" with what follows. And it is manifest that all these gifts [possessed by believers] \"worketh one and the self-same Spirit.\" There are not then either three Fathers, or three Sons, or three Paracletes, but one Father, and one Son, and one Paraclete. Wherefore also the Lord, when He sent forth the apostles to make disciples of all nations, commanded them to \"baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,\" not unto one [person] having three names, nor into three [persons] who became incarnate, but into three possessed of equal honour.<br/><i>— Epistle of Pseudo-Ignatius to the Philippians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Thus having, you see, recovered and raised up by this common example him who thought himself depreciated, again he leaves the topic of common experience, and comes to another, a spiritual one, bringing greater consolation and indicative of great equality of honor. What then is this?</p><p>\"For in one Spirit, saith he, were we all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free.\"</p><p>Now his meaning is this: that which established us to become one body and regenerated us, is one Spirit: for not in one Spirit was one baptized, and another another. And not only is that which hath baptized us one, but also that unto which He baptized us, i.e., for which He baptized us, is one. For we were baptized not that so many several bodies might be formed, but that we might all preserve one with another the perfect nature of one body: i.e., that we might all be one body, into the same were we baptized.</p><p>So that both He who formed it is one, and that into which He formed it is one. And he said not, \"that we might all come to be of the same body;\" but, \"that we might all be one body.\" For he ever strives to use the more expressive phrases. And well said he, \"we all,\" adding also himself. \"For not even I, the Apostle, have any more than thou in this respect,\" saith he. \"For thou art the body even as I, and I even as thou, and we have all the same Head and have passed through the same birth-pains. Wherefore we are also the same body.\" \"And why speak I,\" saith he, \"of the Jews? since even the Gentiles who were so far off from us, He hath brought into the entireness of one body.\" Wherefore having said, \"we all,\" he stopped not here, but added, \"whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free.\" Now if, having before been so far off, we were united and have become one, much more after that we have become one, we can have no right to grieve and be dejected. Yea, the difference, in fact, hath no place. For if to Greeks and Jews, to bond and free, He hath vouchsafed the same blessings, how can it be that after so vouchsafing He divides them, now that He hath bestowed a greater perfection of unity by the supply of His gifts?</p><p>\"And were all made to drink of one Spirit.\"</p><p>i.e., We are come to the same initiation, we enjoy the same Table. And why said he not, \"we are nourished by the same body and drink the same blood?\" Because by saying \"Spirit,\" he declared them both, as well the flesh as the blood. For through both are we \"made to drink of the Spirit.\"</p><p>But to me he appears now to speak of that visitation of the Spirit which takes place in us after Baptism and before the Mysteries. And he said, \"We were made to drink,\" because this metaphorical speech suited him extremely well for his proposed subject: as if he had said respecting plants and a garden, that by the same fountain all the trees are watered, or by the same water; so also here, \"we all drank the same Spirit, we enjoyed the same grace,\" saith he.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 30</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"19eefa0b477cd07708ae0fb0690190a716d6df363db671e68ccef4acc0dfc0a2","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":137,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"630247d58f7b447cdba56e174432ddd395dd811ec8fd803334bace9c15b6b2fd","translator":null,"work":null}