{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4297","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>Irenaeus</b>: Wherefore also the Lord Himself gave us a sign, in the depth below, and in the height above, which man did not ask for, because he never expected that a virgin could conceive, or that it was possible that one remaining a virgin could bring forth a son, and that what was thus born should be \"God with us,\" and descend to those things which are of the earth beneath, seeking the sheep which had perished, which was indeed His own peculiar handiwork, and ascend to the height above, offering and commending to His Father that human nature (hominem) which had been found, making in His own person the first-fruits of the resurrection of man; that, as the Head rose from the dead, so also the remaining pan of the body-[namely, the body] of every man who is found in life-when the time is fulfilled of that condemnation which existed by reason of disobedience, may arise, blended together and strengthened through means of joints and bands by the increase of God, each of the members having its own proper and fit position in the body. For there are many mansions in the Father's house, inasmuch as there are also many members in the body.<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book III</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: But if any one believes in [only] one God, who also made all things by the Word, as Moses likewise says, \"God said, Let there be light: and there was light;\" and as we read in the Gospel, \"All things were made by Him; and without Him was nothing made;\" and the Apostle Paul [says] in like manner, \"There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father, who is above all, and through all, and in us all\" -this man will first of all \"hold the head, from which the whole body is compacted and bound together, and, through means of every joint according to the measure of the ministration of each several part, maketh increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.\" And then shall every word also seem consistent to him, if he for his part diligently read the Scriptures in company with those who are presbyters in the Church, among whom is the apostolic doctrine, as I have pointed out.<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book IV</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: This entire upbuilding, by which the body of the church increases cell by cell, is being accomplished through the mutual love of one for another.… This does not imply that to each member will be distributed the same level of maturity. It is an error to assume, for example, that all human beings will be formed anew into angels. Rather every member will be perfected according to its own distinctive measure and function. Humanity, which has been expelled from paradise, will be restored to the cultivation of paradise again.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ephesians 4:16</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: This, too, I may confidently say: he who has likened the unity of our body throughout its manifold and divers members to the compacting together of the various gifts of the Spirit, shows also that there is but one Lord of the human body and of the Holy Spirit.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book V</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c7c2351bf420312e10e66deb19748921a55fa7d3ade4fed0d575f37abafbcad3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4297,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"562b3e1e2bf27ae0f03dba10507277d756d7b1f7bde80840e9cdf72c7d2fb6c5","translator":null,"work":null}