{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2380","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"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>: \"Flee also youthful lusts.\" Not only the lust of fornication, but every inordinate desire is a youthful lust. Let the aged learn that they ought not to do the deeds of the youthful. If one be given to insolence, or a lover of power, of riches, of bodily pleasures, it is a youthful lust, and foolish. These things must proceed from a heart not yet established, from a mind not deeply grounded, but in a wavering state. What then does he advise in order that none may be captivated by these things? \"Flee youthful\" imaginations, \"but Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.\" He calls virtue in general, \"righteousness\": godliness of life, \"faith, meekness, charity.\" What is meant by \"those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart\"? It is as if he said, Rejoice not in those who only call upon the Lord; but those who call upon Him sincerely and unfeignedly, who have nothing of deceit about them, who approach Him in peace, who are not contentious. With these associate thyself. But with others be not easy, but only as far as lies in you, be peaceable.<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 6</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Flee from youthful lust. But pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.</p><p>Youthful lust is not only fornication alone, but also every improper desire, whether one lusts for power or for wealth; for these fantasies are foolish and unstable of mind. Indeed, even an old man becomes youthful.</p><p>But pursue righteousness. Righteousness is defined as the true and loyal temperament toward those we love.</p><p>love, and peace with those who call on the Lord. That is, to those who trust alone, those who call upon the Lord without deception and deceit; to the peaceful, the unarmed, unite with them, pursue what has been said with them.</p><p>from a pure heart. For one can also call upon piousness with hypocrisy.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"df2bd72f58c9baa3deaa295ef09c41738e3ec5434a6730b08188f4ef99755f04","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2380,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b64bc643d66e9dc8fbb71a4c2caecef929a14a5c00d14d23c43e00598745ba70","translator":null,"work":null}