{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-127","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>: If we cannot name the Lord Jesus without the Spirit, surely we cannot proclaim him without the Spirit.<br/><i>— On the Holy Spirit 1.11.124</i></p><p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Any truth spoken by anyone is spoken by the Holy Spirit.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Basil of Caesarea</b>: If two yardsticks are compared with each other, their straightness is in agreement. But if a distorted piece of wood is compared with a ruler, the crooked one will be at variance with the straight. Since, therefore, the praise of God is righteous, there is need of a righteous heart, in order that the praise may be fitting and adapted to it. \"No one can say 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the Holy Spirit.\" So how can one offer due praise if one does not have the right spirit in one's heart? HOMILY 15.<br/><i>— ON Psalms 32</i></p><p><b>Didache</b>: And every prophet that speaketh in the Spirit ye shall neither try nor judge; for every sin shall be forgiven, but this sin shall not be forgiven. But not every one that speaketh in the Spirit is a prophet; but only if he hold the ways of the Lord. Therefore from their ways shall the false prophet and the prophet be known.<br/><i>— The Didache, Chapter 11</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: This then is the first difference between a soothsayer and a prophet; but a second and a different one is that which he next states, saying,</p><p>\"Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed:\" and then another: \"and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but in the Holy Ghost.\"</p><p>\"When thou seest,\" saith he, \"any one not uttering His name, or anathematizing Him, he is a soothsayer. Again, when thou seest another speaking all things with His Name, understand that he is spiritual.\" \"What then,\" say you, \"must we say concerning the Catechumens? For if, no man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost, what must we say of them who name indeed His Name, but are destitute of His Spirit? But his discourse at this time was not concerning these for there were not at that time Catechumens, but concerning believers and unbelievers. What then, doth no demon call upon God's Name? Did not the demoniacs say, \"We know Thee who Thou art, the Holy One of God?\" Did they not say to Paul, \"these men are the servants of the Most High God?\" They did, but upon scourging, upon compulsion; never of their own will and without being scourged.</p><p>But here it is proper to enquire, both why the demon uttered these things and why Paul rebuked him. In imitation of his Teacher; for so Christ did also rebuke: since it was not his will to have testimony from them. And wherefore did the devil also practise this? Intending to confound the order of things, and to seize upon the dignity of the Apostles, and to persuade many to pay attention to them: which had it happened, they would easily have made themselves appear from hence worthy of credit, and have brought in their own designs. That these things then might not be, and the deceit might not have a beginning, he stops their mouths even when speaking the truth, so that in their falsehoods men should not at all give heed unto them, but stop their ears altogether against the things said by them.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 29</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: There are so many different kinds of spirit that without the gift of discernment, who can know which is which?<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4.47.2-3</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: When the demoniac Legion acknowledged Jesus as Lord, he did not do so in a believing sense, but he merely confessed his knowledge of the lordship and rule of Christ over all things.<br/><i>— PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: There is no disharmony between the teaching of the only begotten Son and that of the Holy Spirit. In the Gospels, Christ the Lord taught us how great the Holy Spirit is, and the Spirit has proclaimed his lordship. No one who is truly moved by the Spirit can say that Christ is not divine.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 242</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"42d2b711fdf85e1ce88b0f81a83bf55c572715eb23fc29125763ad3eca6466e0","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":127,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"39b380ec2652dc1e39958c326f1da95caf185575dc658a649db08fb4c44bef2b","translator":null,"work":null}