{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7193","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":26,"chapter_to":26,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":12,"verse_to":12},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The time when our external enemy the devil will be under our feet is when the internal enemy, covetousness, has been healed, and we shall be living in peace. What sort of peace? The sort that \"eye has not seen nor ear heard.\" What sort of peace? The sort that no imagination can conceive and no quarreling intrude on. What sort of peace? The sort about which the apostle said, \"And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts.\" About this peace the prophet Isaiah says, \"O Lord our God, give us peace, for you have given us everything you promised.\" You promised Christ; you have given him to us. You promised his cross and the shedding of his blood for the forgiveness of sins; you have given them to us. You promised his ascension and the sending of the Holy Spirit from heaven; you have given them to us. You promised us a church spread throughout the world; you have given it. You promised there would be heretics to try us and put us through our paces, and the church would triumph over their errors; you have given this. You promised the abolition of the idols of the heathen; you have given it.<br/><i>— SERMON 77A.2</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: What's the meaning of \"Where, death, is your sting?\" It means, \"Where is sin?\" You ask, and it is nowhere. \"For the sting of death is sin.\" They are the apostle's words, not mine. That is when we will be able to say, \"Where, death, is your sting?\" Sin will be nowhere, neither to take you captive, nor to assault you nor to tickle your consciousness. That is when we will not say, \"Forgive us our debts.\" But what will we say? \"Lord our God, give us peace, for you have given us everything.\"<br/><i>— SERMON 131:7</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: \"A man's steps are directed by the Lord.\" Whoever walks a straight path composed of human steps does so not by the freedom of human judgment but by the governance of him to whom Isaiah said, \"All of our works were accomplished by you.\" \"What man can understand his way?\" In this it becomes clear that whatever goodness anyone possesses from himself he does not have except through the grace of God, because no one is able to understand through the freedom of his own judgment either what kind of future he will have or the quality and duration of conquests to come.<br/><i>— Commentary on Proverbs 2:20</i></p><p><b>Cassiodorus</b>: So they are truly wise who entrust themselves to the power and dispensation of the Godhead; him alone they seek, and the outcome is all that is good for them. This is the message of the prophet Isaiah: \"Lord our God, give us your peace; for you have bestowed all things on us.\" Next comes: \"And he gave ear to me.\" Note that this utterance to the Lord, so short but magnificent in its devotion, sought that he should deign to give ear; what is there that he has failed to give us when out of pity he has granted such a request? For his gaze on us spells deliverance and a bestowal of gifts so great that even the greedy suppliant ceases to beg for them.<br/><i>— EXPOSITION OF THE Psalms 76:2</i></p><p><b>Cassiodorus</b>: \"All have fallen.\" Anyone who refuses to seek out a strong foundation necessarily falls. \"Together they became useless,\" namely, with regard to the work for which they were created. \"There is none who does good.\" There was no one who would do good, because the Jews broke the commandments and the Gentiles spurned the law of nature. When anyone from either party did good, therefore, he knew that he was indebted to grace, not to nature, as the prophet said in reference to the Lord: \"in the presence of whom no one is innocent.\" Isaiah also says in his canticle: \"O Lord our God, you will give us peace, for you have accomplished all of our works in us.\"<br/><i>— EXPOSITION OF Romans 3</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: And we have learned also to say in our prayers, \"O Lord our God, grant us your peace, for you have given us everything,\" so that if anyone becomes partaker of the peace furnished by God, he will not be lacking any good thing.<br/><i>— LETTER 39:2</i></p><p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: Through all that we do, therefore, let us return with a careful mind to the fountain of true light. Let us give thanks to our Creator for the good things we receive, and let us humbly say to him with the prophet Isaiah: \"All our works you have worked for us.\" For our good works are the works of him whose heart it did not suffice to raise us up unless he also bowed down himself for us. For if God, coeternal with the Father before the ages, had not become man in time, when would temporal man have tasted eternal things? Therefore the descent of truth became the ascent of our humility.<br/><i>— Homilies on Ezekiel, Book 1, Homily 5</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 12) Lord, you will give us peace: for you have accomplished all our works for us. LXX: Lord our God, give us peace: for you have restored all things to us. It is notable that after restoring our works to us, he will give peace, and how he will explain the reasons why he seeks peace. For all the works that have been done on earth, they claim to have endured torments, and it is just that after punishment and torture, they obtain mercy. Or else: Because the end of the world has come, and all the things that you spoke through the prophets have been fulfilled, and you have fulfilled all that you promised, grant us peace that surpasses all understanding.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Whenever you see a man living in wickedness, and enjoying great prosperity, and suffering no calamity, on this account lament for him the more, because, being under the power of disease and grievous corruption, he increases his own weakness, becoming worse by luxury and indolence. For punishment is not in itself an evil, but the real evil is sin. The latter separates us from God; the former leads us to God, and mitigates His wrath. How is this shown? Hear the prophet saying, \"O priests, comfort ye, comfort ye my people. Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and say that she has received of the Lord's hand double for her sins.\" And again: \"O Lord our God, give us peace, for thou hast repaid all to us.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN 3</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But I say all this now, and select all the histories that contain trials and tribulations, and the wrath of kings, and their evil designs, in order that we may fear nothing, save only offending God. For then also was there a furnace burning; yet they derided it, but feared sin. For they knew that if they were consumed in the fire, they should suffer nothing that was to be dreaded; but that if they were guilty of impiety: they should undergo the extremes of misery. It is the greatest punishment to commit sin, though we may remain unpunished; as on the other hand, it is the greatest honour and repose to live virtuously, though we may be punished. For sins separate us from God; as He Himself speaks; \"Have not your sins separated between you and Me?\" But punishments lead us back to God. As one saith, \"Give peace; for Thou hast recompensed us for all things.\" Suppose any one hath a wound; which is the most deserving of fear, gangrene, or the surgeon's knife? the steel, or the devouring progress of the ulcer? Sin is a gangrene, punishment is the surgeon's knife. As then, he who hath a gangrene, although he is not lanced, hath to sustain the malady, and is then in the worse condition, when he is not lanced; so also the sinner, though he be not punished, is the most wretched of men; and is then especially wretched, when he hath no punishment, and is suffering no distress.<br/><i>— HOMILIES CONCERNING THE STATUES 6:14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"446f59370cfb7ec461a6bf423e8c13c896f83df524478ee28bf3ee513e05b173","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7193,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ef1242a02e13723cd99c130bfa2a30eee922b7873968affe7cfc6eaad32797d9","translator":null,"work":null}