{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-231","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":15,"chapter_to":15,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":24,"verse_to":24},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: They that have done well will go to live with the angels of God; they that have done evil, to be tormented with the devil and his angels. And the form of a servant will pass away. For to this end He had manifested Himself, that He might execute judgment. After the judgment, He shall go hence, will lead with Him the body of which He is the head, and deliver up the kingdom of God. Then will openly be seen that form of God which could not be seen by the wicked, to whose vision the form of a servant must be shown.<br/><i>— Tractates on John 19</i></p><p><b>Basil of Caesarea</b>: For us the end for which we do all things and toward which we hasten is the blessed life in the world to come.<br/><i>— HOMILY 19 ON Psalms 48</i></p><p><b>Cassiodorus</b>: The faithful deserve to be at his right hand. They will judge in company with the Lord. They will pass into eternal peace and joy, so that they are rightly said to be exalted, for through the Lord's wondrous devotion they attain contemplation of the Lord himself.<br/><i>— EXPLANATION OF THE Psalms 14</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Then cometh the end.\"</p><p>For when these shall have risen again, all things shall have an end, not as now when after Christ's resurrection things abide yet in suspense. Wherefore he added, \"at His coming,\" that thou mayest learn that he is speaking of that time, \"when He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father; when He shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.\"</p><p>Here, give heed to me carefully, and see that no part escape you of what I say. For our contest is with enemies: wherefore we first must practice the reductio ad absurdum which also Paul often doeth. Since in this way shall we find what they say most easy of detection. Let us ask them then first, what is the meaning of the saying, \"When he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father?\" For if we take this just as it stands and not in a sense becoming Deity, He will not after this retain it. For he that hath delivered up to another, ceases any longer to retain a thing himself. And not only will there be this absurdity, but that also the other person who receives it will be found not to be possessor of it before he hath so received it. Therefore according to them, neither was the Father a King before, governing our affairs: nor will it seem that the Son after these things will be a King. How then, first of all, concerning the Father doth the Son Himself say, \"My Father worketh hitherto, and I work:\" and of Him Daniel, \"That His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, which shall not pass away?\" Seest thou how many absurdities are produced, and repugnant to the Scriptures, when one takes the thing spoken after the manner of men?</p><p>But what \"rule,\" then doth he here say, that Christ \"putteth down?\" That of the angels? Far from it. That of the faithful? Neither is it this. What rule then? That of the devils, concerning which he saith, \"Our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness:\" For now it is not as yet \"put down\" perfectly, they working in many places, but then shall they cease.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 39</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: When Christ shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, then those living beings, because they have before this been made part of Christ's kingdom, shall also be delivered up along with the whole of that kingdom to the rule of the Father, so that, when \"God shall be all in all,\" they also, since they are a part of all, may have God even in themselves, as he is in all things.<br/><i>— ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.8</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: But it remains so firm and stable in its own state, notwithstanding the introduction into it of the Trinity, that the Son actually has to restore it entire to the Father; even as the apostle says in his epistle, concerning the very end of all: \"When He shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; for He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet; \" following of course the words of the Psalm: \"Sit Thou on my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.<br/><i>— Against Praxeas</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f7e8297d0ba754d53ac92549be0b5946816e5cd657c7c44afdbcb6f5f40d94c8","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":231,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b0ac7fa900e7635e30193013784c8f9d7e1bc5a8fe6ab1e5ea14ed11e4751c8b","translator":null,"work":null}