{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-551","native_reference":{"book_number":690,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"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>Andreas of Caesarea</b>: What flowed from his side was also the blood which cleanses us from sin and sanctifies the people of God.… It was not a mere man who appeared at the Jordan but the incarnate Word of God, to whom the Father also bore witness: \"This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.\" Similarly, when he was hanging on the cross, what sounded to the people like thunder was the voice of God speaking at the moment that his blood fell to the ground.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: This is He who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ. He who was the eternal Son of God became man in time, so that He who created us by His divine power might recreate us by the weakness of His humanity. He came by water and blood, namely the water of baptism and the blood of His passion. He not only deigned to be baptized for our cleansing to consecrate and deliver to us the sacrament of baptism, but also gave His blood for us, redeeming us by His passion, that we might be nourished unto salvation by the sacraments.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: And the Spirit is He who testifies because Christ is the truth. When the Lord was baptized in the Jordan, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in the form of a dove, bearing witness to Him as the truth, that is, the true Son of God, the true mediator between God and men, the true Redeemer and Reconciler of mankind, who is indeed free from all stain of sin, truly able to take away the sins of the world. As also the Baptist, understanding when he saw the coming of the same Spirit, said: He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, Upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining on Him, He it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God (John 1). Therefore, since the Spirit testifies that Jesus Christ is the truth, He calls Himself the truth, the Baptist proclaims Him as the truth, the son of thunder evangelizes the truth, let the blasphemers be silent, who maintain that this is a phantasm; let the memory of those perish from the earth who deny that He is truly either God or man.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria ((as quoted by Cassiodorus))</b>: He says, \"This is He who came by water and blood;\" and again -</p><p>\"For there are three that bear witness, the spirit,\" which is life, \"and the water,\" which is regeneration and faith, \"and the blood,\" which is knowledge; \"and these three are one.\" For in the Saviour are those saving virtues, and life itself exists in His own Son.<br/><i>— From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: Moreover, how could the Lord, with any justice, if He belonged to another father, have acknowledged the bread to be His body, while He took it from that creation to which we belong, and affirmed the mixed cup to be His blood? And why did He acknowledge Himself to be the Son of man, if He had not gone through that birth which belongs to a human being? How, too, could He forgive us those sins for which we are answerable to our Maker and God? And how, again, supposing that He was not flesh, but was a man merely in appearance, could He have been crucified, and could blood and water have issued from His pierced side? What body, moreover, was it that those who buried Him consigned to the tomb? And what was that which rose again from the dead?<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book IV</i></p><p><b>Ishodad of Merv</b>: John calls Christ's baptism \"water\" and his passion \"blood.\" He fulfilled all the dispensations for our sake, by means of his baptism, his passion and by the Holy Spirit.<br/><i>— COMMENTARIES</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.<br/>Since John also remembered the birth of children, saying: \"Everything that is born of God\" (1 Jn. 5:4): these things, however, happen to us through sacred baptism; therefore he says: \"This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ.\" And for what purpose did he come? To renew us and make us children of God. For this is also understood as a consequent statement, so that this is the meaning. \"For whatever is born of God overcomes the world.\" But how was it born? He says, by water and blood. Indeed, Jesus Christ who came renews through water and blood. John adds again, repeating the statement, saying: not by water only, namely regenerating, but by water and blood. For he wishes first to show the name of Christ who adopted us: since the man who was in him, the first adopted by God, also gave us through his adoption such dignity, which has been demonstrated three times: namely in the baptism in the Jordan, when the heavenly Father testified that he who was being baptized was his beloved Son. (Matt. 3:17)<br/>But who was he that entered the water except the man who was taken up together with the Word of God? Certainly, he who appeared in secret, for he needed a testimony. Therefore, by the water, that is, in the baptism that takes place through water, the Son of God, Jesus, was demonstrated to be so by the testimony of the Father. And by the blood, when he was to be crucified, he said: \"Glorify me, Father,\" (Jn. 17:1) and a voice was heard: \"And I have glorified and will glorify again;\" (Jn. 12:28) which those who heard thought to be thunder.<br/>By the Spirit, however, when He rose from the dead as God. For it is left to God alone to raise Himself. Furthermore, by the term Spirit, God is signified: since the Spirit is God. (Jn. 4:24)<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 John</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: We have indeed, likewise, a second font, (itself withal one with the former, ) of blood, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, \"I have to be baptized with a baptism,\" when He had been baptized already. For He had come \"by means of water and blood,\" just as John has written; that He might be baptized by the water, glorified by the blood; to make us, in like manner, called by water, chosen by blood.<br/><i>— On Baptism</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"271225076ff411ffc5c2ea33adbb72a886f700b1751224bd7ed25384fdedd6d1","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":551,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"69fb2a4960ea05c92c7db65916ea08fc7a43e19eb8d19f06e5715f0fd6fd1337","translator":null,"work":null}