{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6607","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"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>: We have mutual need of one another's prayers, for those reciprocal prayers are enkindled by charity and—like a sacrifice offered on the altar of piety—are fragrant and pleasing to the Lord. If the apostles used to ask for prayers on their own behalf, how much more does it behoove me to do so?<br/><i>— SERMON 305A.10</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: And so we are confident that you will have \"a good conscience,\" that is, a perfect opinion on everything. We must live righteously in everything which concerns us. But I invite you to do more, \"that is, to encourage us to this task.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 13</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Pray for us\" (he says); \"for we trust we have a good conscience among all, willing to live honestly.\"</p><p>Thou seest that he used these apologies, as writing to persons grieved with him, as to those who turned away, who were disposed as towards a transgressor, not enduring even to hear his name? Inasmuch then as he asked from those who hated him what all others ask from those who love them (their prayers for him), therefore he here introduces this; saying, \"We trust that we have a good conscience.\" For do not tell me of accusations; our conscience, he says, in nothing hurts us; nor are we conscious to ourselves that we have plotted against you. \"For we trust,\" he says, \"that we have a good conscience among all,\" not among the Gentiles only, but also among you. We have done nothing with deceitfulness, nothing with hypocrisy: for it was probable that these calumnies were reported respecting him. \"For they have been informed concerning thee\" (it is said) \"that thou teachest apostasy.\" (Acts xxi. 21.) Not as an enemy, he means, nor as an adversary I write these things, but as a friend. And this he shows also by what follows.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 34</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"Pray for us.\" Because some were slandering the apostle, as teaching apostasy from the law, many of the Hebrews had a strong distaste toward him; therefore, Paul did not even place his name at the beginning of the letter, so that they would not find the name of Paul and then not read the letter. Therefore, he now defends himself to them. And first, he asks them to pray for him, as we are accustomed to ask from those who love us. Then he also shows himself to be innocent; for we are sure, he says, that we have a clear conscience; that is, we have done nothing with hypocrisy, but our conscience is clear, and we are not aware that we have plotted against you, or have done anything evil against you, or have slandered you.<br/>\"desiring to act honorably in all things.\" That is, in all things, living without offense and without causing scandal; not proclaiming a departure from the law, as some slander, but rather transitioning from the letter and the shadow to the spirit and the truth (Jn. 4:24); which is not a departure, but rather a fulfillment and promotion of the law.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Paul had been misrepresented to them as preaching the opposite of the law; so he impresses on them that he acted for no other reason than obedience to the divine word—hence his calling his conscience to witness.<br/><i>— INTERPRETATION OF Hebrews 13</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"666b451afde9d15f64281b4e50f765a2d625650a97cba2d98129d69fcae8e4c6","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6607,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f753094e9f91284309972d1c6ca8a270edfc7e640c81813113cce7b1bb4624c7","translator":null,"work":null}