{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6762","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"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>Cosmas Indicopleustes ((quoting John Chrysostom, Commentary on Hebrews))</b>: And how come these to be patterns of the things in the heavens? And what does he call the things which are now in the heavens? Is it heaven? is it the angels? No, none of these, but our things, for heavenly things are ours, yea, even though they be accomplished on the earth, since the angels also are on the earth, and are nevertheless called heavenly. And the Cherubim too appeared on the earth, and yet they are heavenly. But what am I saying?—that they appeared? Is it upon the earth then they spend their time as if in Paradise? Nay, not so, for they are heavenly and our citizenship is in the heavens, although we spend our life with those that are here.\" And subsequently He says: \"I show by actual facts those that attain to this height. And who be these? I mean Paul and his followers, who, though they were on earth, sojourned in heaven. But what am I saying?—in heaven? Nay, they were higher exalted than heaven, yea even than the other heaven, for they ascended to God Himself.<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 10</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"It was therefore necessary that the Patterns\" (he says) \"of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.\"</p><p>And how are they \"patterns of things in the heavens\"? And what does he mean now by \"the things in the heavens\"? Is it Heaven? Or is it the Angels? None of these, but what is ours. It follows then that our things are in Heaven, and heavenly things are ours, even though they be accomplished on earth; since although angels are on earth, yet they are called Heavenly. And the Cherubim appeared on earth, but yet are heavenly. And why do I say \"appeared\"? nay rather they dwell on earth, as indeed in Paradise: but this is nothing; for they are heavenly. And, \"Our conversation is in Heaven,\" and yet we live here.</p><p>\"But these are the heavenly things,\" that is, the philosophy which exists amongst us; those who have been called thereto.</p><p>\"With better sacrifices than these.\" What is \"better\" is better than something [else] that is good. Therefore \"the patterns also of things in the heavens\" have become good; for not even the patterns were evil: else the things whereof they are patterns would also have been evil.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 16</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"Therefore it was necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens.\" The heavenly things in the new covenant are said to be, since the initiation in it is heavenly, and the faithful are citizens of heaven, even if they are still living on earth. For the examples of the old covenant are types of the new covenant.<br/>\"should be purified with these.\" These have been mentioned, with the blood of calves and goats, and with the ashes of a heifer, and with the other things so lowly.<br/>\"but the heavenly things.\" Which are in the New Testament.<br/>\"with better sacrifices.\" Therefore, since it was necessary according to their values to have better sacrifices, the Son of God Himself was offered, so that the death of the Lord not only benefited and enacted the confirmation of the covenantbut also to affect the true purification of the soul. And in the preceding and following, it demonstrates that the death of the Lord worked salvation for humankind, because some weaker ones were offended because of the cross.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Photios I of Constantinople</b>: The statement that \"he entered into the heaven itself\" must be taken by common agreement as this: \"And so that he might not offer himself often, he entered into the very heaven.\" For it is characteristic of those entering the \"antitypes of the true things\" to bear sacrifices \"often\" and \"with blood,\" but not of the one entering \"into heaven itself.\"<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 9.24-25</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"47100dad84849a48b4a701e310ae617030764297aef2b7dbd12767fff5717988","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6762,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b702d6b3f6766b1962987d12f10fed0563aa9e5725c57358f1e2349fd46edea9","translator":null,"work":null}