{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7555","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":49,"chapter_to":49,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>: Make for yourself, O man, a case; stripping off the old man with his actions, put on the new. Your case, your sheath, is Christ, who protects and hides you in the evil day. Do you want to know why the case is protection? My quiver, He says, protected him. Therefore, your case is faith: fill it with the good scents of your virtues; that is, chastity, mercy, and justice, and in it, enter completely fragrant with the sweet scent of excellent deeds of faith.<br/><i>— The Six Days of Creation, 5.80</i></p><p><b>Chromatius of Aquileia</b>: This arrow signifies his divinity, resting in a quiver signifying the body assumed from the Virgin, in whose cloth of flesh his divinity was clothed.<br/><i>— TRACTATE ON Matthew 2:4</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: The name Christ is not appropriate for God the Word before the generation that, as I said, was according to the flesh. If he was then not yet anointed, how could he be called \"Christ\"? But when the man came forth from his mother's womb, then he received the name at the same time as the generation according to the flesh. For it says that he \"set his mouth like a sharp sword\" … for no one can overcome his all-powerful right hand, but the Word is kept distinct from the dimensions of the humanity. For he is the Word from the Father and himself is the Lord of hosts. When he became man, the Father did not remove the power of the mystery but confirmed him in the economy of salvation.… There have been several arrows of God hidden in his quiver, in his foreknowledge, and brought out at the time prepared for each, but the chosen arrow above all others is the Christ hidden in the quiver or foreknowledge of God. For he was known before the creation of the world and brought forth in the middle of time when it was necessary that the earth be visited as it was falling into destruction.… This chosen arrow, as I said, got rid of Satan and the evil powers with him … yet he wounds in another way, for benefit and salvation. Thus it says in the Song of Songs, \"I am wounded with love.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 4:4.49:1-3</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: He has also made His mouth like a sharp sword, in order to kill the wicked with the breath of His mouth. Regarding this sword, he himself speaks in the Gospel: I have not come to bring peace upon the earth, but a sword, separating the wicked from the good.… And in shadow, he says, his hand protected me, so that the lowliness of flesh would be covered by the power of divinity, as the Angel announced to the Virgin: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. He has set me like an arrow chosen, in his quiver he has hidden me. When he says \"an arrow chosen,\" he shows that God has many arrows, but not chosen ones: which arrows are the Prophets and Apostles, who run throughout the whole world. Of whom it is also sung in another place: Your arrows are sharp, O mighty one; the peoples fall beneath you. But Christ, out of many arrows and many sons, is the chosen arrow, and He is the Only Begotten Son: whom He has hidden in His quiver, that is, in a human body, so that the fullness of divinity might dwell bodily in Him. And rare indeed is the faith of believers, to whom it is also said above: You are a hidden God, and we did not know.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Therefore, if anyone can with a capacious mind conceive and consider the beauty and comeliness of all these things which were created in Him, being struck by the very loveliness of things and pierced by the magnificence of their splendor as by a chosen arrow, as the prophet says, he will receive from Him a saving wound, and will burn with the blessed fire of His love.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE SONG OF SONGS, PROLOGUE</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Such is the word, the source of division that he presented to all people; likewise he declared, \"I have not come to bring peace to the earth, but a sword.\" And moreover, the divine apostle says, \"The Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword.\" … \"He has set me like a chosen arrow and hidden me in his quiver.\" Similarly, Isaiah said this metaphorically; he speaks of an arrow that wounds the souls of those who love him. Each cries, \"I am wounded by love.\" The quiver represents the mystery of the economy of the incarnation.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 15:49.2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"a863f75d766b56f4573a47147892025ddfabb0385738f8b361a181f261fd1145","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7555,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7d1677e53171d4c82934847b60c1ff20f5106bcfdca66eebf321875bba6d11dc","translator":null,"work":null}