{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7376","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":40,"chapter_to":40,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: There is also another type of consolation for those who have paid heavy penalties, as it is written in the book of Isaiah: 'Comfort, comfort my people,' says the Lord. 'Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.' Even if faith was lacking, punishment was satisfied. The penalties are mitigated for those who are acquitted by commendation of their merits.<br/><i>— Exposition On Psalms 118, Sermon 18</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nazianzus</b>: How is it that some receive at the Lord's hand double for their sins and the measure of their wickedness is doubly filled up, as in the correction of Israel, while the sins of others are removed by a sevenfold compensation? What is the measure of the Amorites that is not yet full? And how is the sinner either acquitted or chastised again, acquitted perhaps, because reserved for the other world, chastised because healed thereby in this?<br/><i>— ON HIS FATHER'S SILENCE, ORATION 16:5</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: The God of the universe has left the king aside to invite the priests to give courage back to Jerusalem, as if the chastisement with which it had been threatened had already occurred. This is made clear in the passage to follow: \"Comfort [Jerusalem], for its humiliation is accomplished.\" The words of the threat have received a perfect accomplishment. \"[Its] sin is put away: for it has received of the Lord's hand double the amount of its sins.\" It is worthwhile to admire the kindness of the Master at this point: because he is good and his compassion is unfathomable, and although he inflicted a punishment less than equal to the sin, he says, by reason of great benevolence, that this lesser punishment is double the amount of the sin. Now that the chastisement was less than the sin, the same prophet has cried in testimony: \"Your chastening was to us with small affliction.\" Nevertheless, because he tempers his justice with infinite mercy, the lesson that the victims of the chastisement call small, the judge has called double [the amount of the sin]. Then he teaches the comforters the means of comfort.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 12:40.1-2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d524e1d1201f02d49d327b1e5ec7b0c6b29ea8f251dbc7f1bdc445a161f0bbec","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7376,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e75a509e7cb3a0755891bd59ea618fdbfc382fab79eee2500369ff6ab7ce944b","translator":null,"work":null}