{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7517","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":46,"chapter_to":46,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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>: O Lord our God, under the shadow of your wings let us hope; defend us and support us. You will bear us up when we are little, and even down to our gray hairs you will carry us. For our stability, when it is in you, is stability indeed; but when it is in ourselves, then it is all unstable. Our good lives forever with you, and when we turn from you with aversion, we fall into our own perversion. Let us now, O Lord, return that we be not overturned, because with you our good lives without blemish—for our good is you yourself.<br/><i>— Confessions 4.15.31</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Woe to the audacious soul that hoped that by forsaking you it would find some better thing! It tossed and turned, on back and side and belly, but the bed is hard, and you alone give rest. Yet you are near. You deliver us from our wretched wanderings and establish us in your way. You comfort us and say, \"Run, I will carry you. I will lead you home, and I will set you free.\"<br/><i>— Confessions 6.16.26</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: But since their heart was not responsive to his promptings, he predicted the evils to come so that they would be gradually troubled by these terrors and would cease their irregular and foul way of life.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 4:3.46:8-11</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4b80d32c415b14d6841e18e4faf3eacb2d241c648b834be9f721bd8b74748109","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7517,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"eea5c77fa2ce60b9ba6a9f2ec87e9f3ff6ee21cd335747f9442cb4a392060e03","translator":null,"work":null}