{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2365","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Consider what I say, and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.\" It is on this account that he has spoken these things in proverb and parable. Then again to show his affectionate disposition, he ceases not to pray for him, as fearing for his own son...<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 4</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Understand what I say. For may the Lord give you understanding in everything. Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David according to my Gospel.</p><p>Since Paul spoke everything in parables, those of the soldier, those of the athlete, those of the farmer, he says: Understand what I say. For whose sake does he say this?</p><p>in everything, Paul says, so that you may also understand these things as you ought, and do the other things as you must.</p><p>Remember Jesus Christ, risen. At the same time, Paul also makes the argument against heretics stronger and stimulates discussion: showing that Christ, through suffering, came and conquered death by death.</p><p>of the seed of David. For already some heretics from that time denied the privilege of God, who considered it a disgrace that the Son of God should suffer, and therefore perhaps introduced unbelievable ideas, not knowing that He had given this as a sign of His highest kindness and goodness.</p><p>according to my Gospel. For even false apostles preached the Gospel, but badly, as my Gospel, he says, confirms.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p><p><b>Pseudo-Clement</b>: For virginity of such a kind is impure, and disowned by all good works. For \"every tree whatsoever is known from its fruits.\" \"See that you understand what I say: God will give you understanding.\" [2 Timothy 2:7] For whosoever engages before God to preserve sanctity must be girded with all the holy power of God. And, if with true fear he crucify his body, he for the sake of the fear of God excuses himself from that word in which the Scripture has said: \"Be fruitful, and multiply,\" [Genesis 1:28] and shuns all the display, and care, and sensuality, and fascination of this world, and its revelries and its drunkenness, and all its luxury and ease, and withdraws from the entire life of this world, and from its snares, and nets, and hindrances; and, while you walk upon the earth, be zealous that your work and your business be in heaven.<br/><i>— Two Epistles on Virginity</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"856f4dadf70b85a2d1956c6a099f5734d76bea2df4ff530ac85237d214cea457","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2365,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c8b785e8baab2c2e5ab076684c79f93fb99f6cd404c1bac56bb8276fb97c8483","translator":null,"work":null}