{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3494","native_reference":{"book_number":580,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"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>Didache</b>: Thou shalt not enjoin aught in thy bitterness upon thy bondman or maidservant, who hope in the same God, lest ever they shall fear not God who is over both; for he cometh not to call according to the outward appearance, but unto them whom the Spirit hath prepared.<br/><i>— The Didache, Chapter 4</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: What is \"just\"? What is \"equal\"? To place them in plenty of everything, and not allow them to stand in need of others, but to recompense them for their labors. For, because I have said that they have their reward from God, do not thou therefore deprive them of it. And in another place he saith, \"forbearing threatening\" (Eph. vi. 9), wishing to make them more gentle; for those were perfect men; that is, \"with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you.\" (Matt. vii. 2.) And the words, \"there is no respect of persons,\" are spoken with a view to these, but they are assigned to the others, in order that these may receive them. For when we have said to one person what is applicable to another, we have not corrected him so much, as the one who is in fault. \"Ye also,\" along with them, he saith. He has here made the service common, for he saith, \"knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Colossians 10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d26cd4945bda5cbb38727303662a5303a58aed1b848034d85223caaeb28dec44","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3494,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b639a8ddf907e4834a10df9cf6e1db3e9e81130f225d68907f5bd63f77b26235","translator":null,"work":null}