{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6736","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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</b>: Having bestowed on us the truly great, divine, and inalienable inheritance of the Father, deifying man by heavenly teaching, putting His laws into our minds, and writing them on our hearts. What laws does He inscribe? \"That all shall know God, from small to great;\" and, \"I will be merciful to them,\" says God, \"and will not remember their sins.\" Let us receive the laws of life, let us comply with God's expostulations; let us become acquainted with Him, that He may be gracious. And though God needs nothing let us render to Him the grateful recompense of a thankful heart and of piety, as a kind of house-rent for our dwelling here below.<br/><i>— Exhortation to the Heathen</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For this,\" he says, \"is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.\" Thus He says this concerning the New covenant because His words are \"not according to the covenant which I covenanted.\"</p><p>But what other difference is there beside this? Now if any person should say that \"the difference is not in this respect, but in respect to its being put into their hearts; He makes no mention of any difference of ordinances, but points out the mode of its being given: for no longer\" (he says) \"shall the covenant be in writings, but in hearts;\" let the Jew in that case show that this was ever carried into effect; but he could not, for it was made a second time in writings after the return from Babylon. But I show that the Apostles received nothing in writing, but received it in their hearts through the Holy Ghost. Wherefore also Christ said, \"When He cometh, He will bring all things to your remembrance, and He shall teach you.\" (John xiv. 26.)<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 14</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"For this is the covenant.\" Which one? The New one.<br/>That is to say, \"after those days.\" Which days? Some say, those of the Exodus, in which the Mosaic law was given; but it seems to me that it speaks of those days mentioned above: \"Behold, the days are coming.\" After those days have passed, I will make such a covenant as you will hear next.<br/>\"I will put my laws.\" I will establish, giving my laws,<br/>\"on their hearts.\" For neither in letters was the new established, but through the Holy Spirit. And this is indicated by Christ speaking to the apostles. \"He (that is, the Comforter) coming, will remind you and teach you all things.\" (Jn. 14:26) Do you see that the new is not in letters, but through the Holy Spirit? Therefore, consider how much greater the New Covenant is.<br/>\"And I will be their God.\" This was accomplished through the gospel. For those who formerly worshiped idols, now having known the true God, have become His people.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: For this is evident. Who easily persuades someone in the ancient times to turn away from their own superstition? On the contrary, Israel was turning from the knowledge of God into error.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: This does not happen in this life, but will happen in that: those still beset with the gloom of unbelief will see the truth there, and will be smitten, in keeping with the divine oracle.<br/><i>— INTERPRETATION OF Hebrews 8</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c99dd6736451d3a8640d573bf103ffe63fbbe3c26d46761c447329b664a4a7e2","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6736,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"4b2d1a9ac559b0f89449158e2c767d1556c141190bb3ce1ffb1fce4a25ccd523","translator":null,"work":null}