{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4652","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":33,"chapter_to":33,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":12,"verse_to":12},"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>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: Jesus says to her: \"Mary.\" After he called her by the common word for her sex, and was not recognized, he calls her by name. As if he openly said to her: Recognize him by whom you are recognized. To the perfect man also it is said: \"I know you by name,\" because \"man\" is the common word for all of us, but \"Moses\" is proper, to whom it is rightly said that he is known by name, as if the Lord openly said to him: I do not know you generally as the rest, but specially.<br/><i>— Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 25</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: And Moses said to the Lord: \"Look, you say to me: Get this people out; but you have not indicated to me who you will send along with me; even though you told me: I know you more than all of you, and you have found grace before me. If, then, I have found grace before you, show yourself to me, that I see you clearly, so that I may find grace before you and so that I may know that this nation is your people. \" The word gnostos, that appears in the Greek, some Latin translators have expressed it by manifesté (clearly), in spite of the fact that the Scripture has not said pigeons. Perhaps it could have been translated better: If I have found grace before you, show yourself to me, that I see you knowing it (scienter). With these words Moses clearly shows that in the midst of that great familiarity of contemplation he did not see him as he wished to see him, because all those visions of God that were granted to the human gaze and from which a sound was derived that reached the mortal ears , they took place assuming a form as God wanted, in the form that they wanted, so that in those visions, one does not feel with any corporal sense one's divine nature, which is invisible and is everywhere and does not include any. And because of the two commandments, of the love of God and of neighbor, depends the whole law (Cf Matthew 22,46), that is why Moses showed his desire in one and the other: in the love of God, when he says: If I have found grace before you, show yourself to me , that sees you clearly, so that it finds grace before you. And in the love of neighbor, when he says: And so that he knows that this nation is your people.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON EXODUS, Q. 151 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: What does what God says to Moses mean: Because I know you more than all? Does God know some other things and other things less? Or is it something similar to what is said of some in the Gospel: I do not know you? (Matthew 25,12) Ultimately, God knew Moses more than all, because Moses liked God above all, that is, he knew him with that kind of knowledge according to which it is said that God knows the things that he likes and that he does not know the things that displease him; not because he ignores them, but because he does not approve of them; as it is said with all property that the art does not know the vices, nevertheless that it experiences vices.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON EXODUS, Q. 152 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: It is necessary to notice that Moses said to God: You said to me: I know you more than to all. But nowhere before we read that God told Moses before Moses remembered him. By this we understand that not all the things that God spoke with Moses have been written. In any case, it is necessary to investigate more carefully in the previous parts of the Scripture to see if it really is that way.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON EXODUS, Q. 153 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"74044698cdcbd1a1af68e67067626e9e4ff0e5dbda04e25a1f07a2abeeae3bcc","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4652,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0185166014bba018a8cc572e566d622195429c68b34c6a43b2d05d95e98f9977","translator":null,"work":null}