{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6757","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"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>John Chrysostom</b>: And he established this no longer from common custom only, but also from what happened under the old [Testament]: which especially influenced them. There was no one who died there: how then could that [Testament] be firm? In the same way (he says). How? For blood was there also, as there is blood here. And if it was not the blood of the Christ, do not be surprised; for it was a type. \"Whereupon,\" he says, \"neither was the first [Testament] dedicated without blood.\"</p><p>What is \"was dedicated\"? was confirmed, was ratified. The word \"whereupon\" means \"for this cause.\" It was needful that the symbol of the Testament should be also that of death.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 16</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"even the first was not.\" And thus, he says, by death, the covenant is confirmed, for the first had the blood as a symbol of death; but the new has the actual death. As those were types, the truth is in the new.<br/>\"not dedicated without blood.\" As if he were saying: The blood has not ceased or been interrupted for a short time, but immediately as the covenant was dedicated, it also had successive blood.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"933182439565cfff7e4efa7d8ff13e58d95545aad3c3771272a6c17f1b579e61","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6757,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"00135cf303d60ec9f067c738c8f8e0a20719ff8d6ee7a9e539d215785880c540","translator":null,"work":null}