{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-816","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"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>Bede</b>: So that in what they detract from you, etc. It frequently happened that the pagans who disparaged the faith of the Christians, because they had abandoned their gods, later, considering their chaste conduct and unbeaten heart in Christ, would stop maligning them, and rather begin to glorify and praise God, who was proven to be good and just by the goodness and justice of His worshippers. He says, \"Let them glorify God on the day of visitation,\" that is, in the time of retribution, let the unbelievers now already recognize how great a glory through God is to be given to you, when they see that you constantly follow Him amid opposing dangers.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: Wherefore the wearing of gold and the use of softer clothing is not to be entirely prohibited. But irrational impulses must be curbed, lest, carrying us away through excessive relaxation, they impel us to voluptuousness. For luxury, that has dashed on to surfeit, is prone to kick up its heels and toss its mane, and shake off the charioteer, the Instructor; who, pulling back the reins from far, leads and drives to salvation the human horse-that is, the irrational part of the soul-which is wildly bent on pleasures, and vicious appetites, and precious stones, and gold, and variety of dress, and other luxuries.</p><p>Above all, we are to keep in mind what was spoken sacredly: \"Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles; that, whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, by the good works which they behold, glorify God.\"<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 3</i></p><p><b>Desert Fathers</b>: Hyperichius said, 'He who teaches others by his life and not his speech is truly wise.'<br/><i>— The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: As the head of the church Peter lays down rules for everyday behavior, and by doing so he unites all the members of the church in one overall harmony.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: The day of visitation will be like the time when God visited Egypt through an angel and slew all the firstborn children. Similarly he will visit the lands of the earth and will cut off the firstfruits of all evil works.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER</i></p><p><b>Polycarp of Smyrna</b>: Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood, and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one. When you can do good, defer it not, because \"alms delivers from death.\" Be all of you subject one to another, \"having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles,\" that ye may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.<br/><i>— Epistle to the Philippians 10</i></p><p><b>Pseudo-Clement</b>: \"The paths,\" therefore, \"of the righteous shine as the light, and the light of them advances until the day is perfect.\" For the beams of their light illumine the whole creation even now by good works, as those who are truly \"the light of the world,\" [Matthew 5:14] giving light to \"those who sit in darkness,\" that they may arise and go forth from the darkness by the light of the good works of the fear of God, \"that they may see our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven.\" [Matthew 5:16; 1 Peter 2:12] For it is required of the man of God, that in all his words and works he be perfect, and that in his life he be adorned with all exemplary and well-ordered behaviour, and do all his deeds in righteousness, as a man of God.<br/><i>— Two Epistles on Virginity</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"54f2bfddb8fed5dc2960496aa2efac190cddf76a207598002373257dbab6d626","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":816,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f766b4e49730814ec0b088dea7845fd16642cdaa05e7422b5f1d52c871db5cfb","translator":null,"work":null}