{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5725","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":18,"chapter_to":18,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>Bede</b>: He also took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had cooked, and set it before them. By the milk, the beginnings and as it were the elements of the Mosaic law; by the butter, the perfection of evangelical doctrine; by the milk, the simplicity of the letter in the Scriptures, by the butter, the virtue of the mystical sense which is usually generated from the letter, is expressed. Or certainly, the milk indicates the beginning of faith, the butter indicates the perfection of the work which is created from faith. All of which Abraham placed before the men whom he had received, to signify that the sons of promise would always offer spiritual feasts to the Lord, namely the breads of holy readings, the calf of the Lord's Incarnation, the milk of faith or historical perfection, the butter of good senses or good works, where it is well added:<br/><i>— Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron)</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: But he himself stood by them under the tree, because certainly we should so feed the Lord with the feasts of faith and virtues by good living, that is, delight Him, so that we always remember to stand in His presence, according to the saying of Blessed Elijah: \"The Lord lives, in whose sight I stand\" (3 Kings 17:1). And as the Psalmist says: \"In the sight, I will sing to you among the angels\" (Psalms 138:1). And this under the tree of the Lord's passion, saying with the Apostle: \"But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ\" (Galatians 6:14).<br/><i>— Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron)</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: But thou wilt not be able to stand in the freedom of spiritual beings until thou hast cast away entirely the bondage of carnal beings, for when thou hast cast away this bondage like a spiritual being and freeman thou mayest eat of every thing blamelessly, without making thy heart gross by the eating of flesh, and the drinking of wine will not cloud thy thoughts, even as it is written concerning the angels, that \"They ate flesh and drank wine with Abraham;\" and their spiritualness was not weighed down by this food; moreover, like unto them also are all the righteous whose names are written in the Scriptures, who ate, and whose hearts neither became heavy nor gross, because they did not eat with a longing desire.<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"0fc97ef9de6c7467d705745ae9e9d266add3ad30d3e1a3f62a956816abbf2f13","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5725,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1eb4f6070990acab83e1d0f160721c461c18c519e35cedc844b9383fd9868e6a","translator":null,"work":null}