{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6676","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>Oecumenius</b>: \"being designated by God a High Priest.\" And having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.\" Therefore, this is perfection in humans, that through sufferings they attain completeness. And He has said everything fitting for a human. \"the source of eternal salvation.\"<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Behold also that which responds to divinity.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: For whence was Noah \"found righteous,\" if in his case the righteousness of a natural law had not preceded? Whence was Abraham accounted \"a friend of God,\" if not on the ground of equity and righteousness, (in the observance) of a natural law? Whence was Melchizedek named \"priest of the most high God,\" if, before the priesthood of the Levitical law, there were not levites who were wont to offer sacrifices to God? For thus, after the above-mentioned patriarchs, was the Law given to Moses, at that (well-known) time after their exode from Egypt, after the interval and spaces of four hundred years.<br/><i>— An Answer to the Jews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"8b73ae2e2f188362b8880b5c38b9e241f6846d08f9e826261f1f254e676f71fc","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6676,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"318c1a6db2aa275d2ed3c40d8079c2188d6c59ffc5e474584192dce3089735fb","translator":null,"work":null}