{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"9213ae3504451e3ef35c50316359a45f4f4f31980b7a52b86a7784219a20c38f","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-catena-294","native_reference":{"book_number":490,"chapter_from":17,"chapter_to":17,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":21},"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>Ver 20. And when he was demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God comes not with observation:</p><p>21. Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.</p><p>CYRIL; Because our Savior, in His discourses which He addressed to others, spoke often of the kingdom of God, the Pharisees derided Him; hence it is said, And when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come. As though they said tauntingly, \"Before the kingdom of God come, which you speak of, the death of the cross will be your lot.\" But our Lord testifying His patience, when reviled reviles not again, but the rather because they were evil, returns not a scornful answer; for it follows, He answered and said, The kingdom comes not with observation; as if he says, \"Seek not to know the time when the kingdom of heaven shall again be at hand. For that time can be observed neither by men nor angels, not as the time of the Incarnation which was proclaimed by the foretelling of Prophets and the heraldings of Angels.\" Wherefore He adds, Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, Lo there! Or else, They ask about the kingdom of God, because, as is said below, they thought that on our Lord's coming into Jerusalem, the kingdom of God would be immediately manifested. Therefore our Lord answers, that the kingdom of God will not come with observation.</p><p>CYRIL; Now it is only for the benefit of each individual that He says that which follows, For behold the kingdom of God is within you; that is, it rests with you and your own hearts to receive it. For every man who is justified by faith and the grace of God, and adorned with virtues, may obtain the kingdom of heaven.</p><p>GREG. NYSS.. Or, perhaps, the kingdom of God being within us, means that joy that is implanted in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. For that is, as it were, the image and pledge of the everlasting joy with which in the world to come the souls of the Saints rejoice.</p><p>BEDE; Or the kingdom of God means that He Himself is placed in the midst of them, that is, reigning in their hearts by faith.</p>","source_html_sha256":"fd605848b51c8162b4e71e58d2bb85f63b0464a8f908fbffc469599b629ab554","source_module":"CATENA","source_row_id":294,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/catena/","text_sha256":"7222a2bef2abee54c1a92044ff937ccd541a41742b89c73380192ec6c37a057f","translator":null,"work":null}