{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7385","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":40,"chapter_to":40,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: \"Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we to him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.\" … The apostle says according to the prophecy of Isaiah, \"Who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?\" And he added, \"For him and through him and in him are all things,\" which Isaiah said of the artificer of all, as you have it. \"Who has measured the water with his hand, and the heaven with his palm?\" And the apostle has added, \"For of him and through him and in him are all things.\" What is \"of him\"? That the nature of all things is of his will, and he is the author of all things that come into existence. \"Through him\" means what? That establishment and continuance are seen to have been bestowed on all things through him. \"In him\" means what? That all things by a certain wonderful desire and ineffable love look on the Author of their lives and the minister of their graces and functions, according to what is written: \"The eyes of all hope in you,\" and \"You open your hand and fill every living creature with your good pleasure.\"<br/><i>— On the Holy Spirit 2.9.85, 90-91</i></p><p><b>Basil of Caesarea</b>: \"Who has known the mind of the Lord or who rather has been his counselor?\" This passage is not merely a rhetorical question. If it were, \"who\" could not possibly refer to anyone. Rather, the use of \"who\" indicates a rare personage.… All these questions … have the same answer: \"For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing.\"<br/><i>— ON THE HOLY SPIRIT 5:7</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verses 13-14) Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or instructed him as his counselor? Whom did he consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding? LXX: Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Who, he says, aided the spirit of the Lord, or who was his counselor and showed him? etc. For which Symmachus interpreted: Who prepared the spirit of the Lord, and who showed him the man of his counsel? with whom he entered into counsel, and gave him understanding, and taught him the way of judgment, and instructed him in knowledge, and showed him the path of prudence? By which it is shown more clearly that the spirit is prepared or established, of which it is read in the Apostle: But the Lord is the Spirit. And on whom the Spirit of God rested, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, etc. He says in the following: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: because He has anointed me (Isaiah 61:1). He is truly the Spirit of the Lord and the man of His counsel, in whom the fullness of divinity dwelt bodily (Colossians 2). With Him entered into the counsel, of which we spoke above (Ad 11:6): Wonderful, counselor. And in Proverbs it is written: God by wisdom hath founded the earth, by prudence hath prepared the heavens (Prov. III, 19). Moreover, the LXX said: Who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counseller? They wish to understand that the mind, reason and understanding of God, by whom all things were made and without whom nothing was made, is the one of whom it is sung in the Psalms: By the word of the Lord the heavens were established, and all the power of them by the breath of his mouth (Ps. XXXII, 6).<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e558cca1f590d4247515b80e0d566a804be814e1be377491abf32eee6265e487","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7385,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6169d31018587194d9b6cbde11cf15382f22c69d7dea10c7a29ad25a7fc272f5","translator":null,"work":null}