{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-862","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"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>: If anyone speaks, let him speak as the words of God. Fearing, indeed, lest he should say or command anything beyond the will of God or beyond what is clearly prescribed in the holy Scriptures, and be found as a false witness of God, or sacrilegious, or introducing something foreign to the doctrine of the Lord, or certainly omitting and passing over something of those things that are pleasing to God, since He Himself very manifestly instructs the preachers of truth concerning those whom they teach into life, saying: \"Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you\" (Matthew XXVIII). For He commands us to teach not just parts but all those things to be observed by their hearers.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: If anyone ministers, etc. Let everyone more humbly render every good thing he can to his neighbor, as certainly as he knows that he cannot have what he bestows from himself.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: That in all things God may be honored through Jesus Christ, etc. According to the command of Jesus Christ Himself, who said: \"Let your good works be seen, and glorify your Father who is in heaven\" (Matthew V). Thus, God is honored in our actions when whatever good things we do according to His will, we attribute not to our own merits but to His grace; yet, on the contrary, we attribute the evil things we do only to our own wickedness or ignorance.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7ebcf6f322d07382f6b85a2ee9bf6f9ce5e58c680ab69394d851e7a2baeb247e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":862,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"97877919e0c8749c43803da30622f238feb414ebdd2bab3af87d428e3d7379ce","translator":null,"work":null}