{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6695","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"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>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: \"Through this\" oath \"God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise\" that God's promise, because indeed it is God's, will never be changed. God's oath was infallible in its being interposed, that is, between God, the angel and Abraham.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: God, however, ought to have been believed even without an oath: \"wherein\" (he says) \"God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath.\" In these words he comprehends also the believers, and therefore mentions this \"promise\" which was made to us in common with them. \"He mediated\" (he says) \"by an oath.\" Here again he says that the Son was mediator between men and God.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 11</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: It was necessary, therefore, he says, to believe in God who had promised without an oath, but since God wanted to do something more, he mediated the promise by an oath.<br/>\"to show the firmness of His counsel.\" He also came to us. For we are the heirs of the promise, being the seed of Abraham; and if we are the seed, then we are also heirs.<br/>\"He mediated with an oath.\" See what he prepares. That the Son was thereafter the mediator of God and men (for he has also become a mediator in the incarnation); and then he mediated with the Father and with Abraham, confirming him with an oath; for the Word was he who both spoke to Abraham and swore. The meaning of the interpretation is well-founded, so that it may be thus. God, that is, the Word, wanting to show the unchangeable nature of those glorifying the Father, mediated with the Father and with Abraham with an oath, that is, he became a mediator in the oath. For through him, as the Word, God and the Father swore.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: When he said above, \"the full assurance of the hope,\" he made clear that God furnished to Abraham \"full assurance,\" not that which belonged to his conduct through works but that which belonged to him through God's redemptive plan.<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 6.17</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"319d433487f75d700f1cfd152e5de66b59083bacfe9104855f271cb65b5d2ced","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6695,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b15ce36be43be70bcb431f554777457aedb3fb7df704448f0f38eb4ae332c2c6","translator":null,"work":null}