{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4865","native_reference":{"book_number":330,"chapter_from":17,"chapter_to":17,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"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>Jerome</b>: Some interpret it differently, as the exalted humbled and the humble exalted, referring to the passion of the Lord Savior. Who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God: but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant (Philippians 2:6-7); and after the resurrection, the same tree was exalted, which was first green, dried up by death, and then revived, regaining its original greenness.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ezekiel</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Consider the sublime grandeur of the church of Christ, to understand that according to the promise of God the word has been realized.… It will become a noble cedar; and under it will dwell all kinds of beasts; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Ezekiel 12:5</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Take the wings of the word of God, and you will be able to repose under this tree that has been planted over a high mountain.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Ezekiel 12:5</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: He says, know that it is easy for me both to humble what is lofty and to raise up what is lowly; to make dry what is wet and to manifest what is dry to be in flower.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Ezekiel 6</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"18f8183790e77fb92b7e51e39e0de7ec6b21d2a086a14f5efae7557470705548","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4865,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3707f9891b13e03dca30333dfbf081f4992670345ece2919ed53cd4aa9df8d7d","translator":null,"work":null}