{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-399","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"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>Ambrosiaster</b>: God has assigned to each person the time of his salvation, that is, the time when he might believe, and he will keep that person until then. Paul tells the Corinthians that this is his general rule, so that when they hear that others are expected to follow it, they will be more willing to do so themselves. It is always easier to do something when you see others doing the same.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Only as God hath distributed to each man, as the Lord hath called each, so let him walk. Was any one called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Was any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God. Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called. Wast thou called, being a slave? Care not for it.\" These things contribute nothing unto faith, saith he. Be not then contentious neither be troubled; for the faith hath cast out all these things.</p><p>\"Let each man abide in that calling wherein he was called. Hast thou been called, having an unbelieving wife? Continue to have her. Cast not out thy wife for the faith's sake. Hast thou been called, being a slave? Care not for it. Continue to be a slave. Hast thou been called, being in uncircumcision? Remain uncircumcised. Being circumcised, didst thou become a believer? Continue circumcised. For this is the meaning of, \"As God hath distributed unto each man.\" For these are no hindrances to piety. Thou art called, being a slave; another, with an unbelieving wife; another, being circumcised.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 19</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: The very closing sentence of the period confirms (the supposition) that this is thus to be understood. \"As each,\" it says, \"is called by the Lord, so let him persevere.\" But it is Gentiles who \"are called,\" I take it, not believers.<br/><i>— To His Wife Book II</i></p><p><b>Theodore of Mopsuestia</b>: It is wrong to suppose that the circumstances which prevailed when a person was converted stand in the way of his becoming holy.<br/><i>— PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"554e5a5691f1f8535c6481e6919d659a6b440f29444d3c821dfa3b25d4044c3d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":399,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"dff65e367b96864a80da5146faca1b1e737732df74bddced585c92443b840ed5","translator":null,"work":null}