{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-781","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>Andreas of Caesarea</b>: See how Peter says that he was called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the foreknowledge of God the Father. Furthermore, he explains what his apostleship is like by saying that it is in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ. Moreover, we who believe in him have also been sanctified by the Spirit, and he sprinkles us too with his blood in order to cleanse us. For how can we not know that God sanctifies us by his own Spirit and cleanses us believers with his own blood? For Christ was God in human flesh.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Basil of Caesarea</b>: May it be granted to us, after we have struggled nobly and subdued the spirit of the flesh, which was at enmity with God, when our soul is in a calm and tranquil state, to be called the children of peace and to share the blessing of God in peace.<br/><i>— SERMONS 13.8</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, etc. These verses are connected to what was previously stated, \"To the elect exiles.\" For they were chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. Hence the apostle also says: \"Those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son.\" And elsewhere: \"He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.\" They were elected to this end, that by the gift of the Holy Spirit they might be sanctified, cleansed from all sins, to begin to obey the Lord Jesus Christ, who had perished due to the proto-parent's disobedience, that being sprinkled with His blood they might avoid the power of Satan, just as Israel avoided the dominion of the Egyptians through the lamb's blood. He speaks of sprinkling in the manner of the old Scripture, where those things which were to be sanctified were usually sprinkled with the blood of sacrifices. Otherwise, the Lord Himself speaks clearly about this: \"Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you\" (John 6).<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: May grace and peace be multiplied. So that what you have well begun, you may complete perfectly. He first names grace, then peace, because without the grace of Christ we cannot attain to the peace of reconciliation, indeed we cannot have anything peaceful except through His grace.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Didymus the Blind</b>: What Peter says agrees with the statements of Paul, such as: \"He has chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world, to be holy and spotless before him in love, predestinating us to be adopted as sons.\" … Foreknowledge is not to be regarded as anything other than the contemplation of the future. It becomes knowledge as the things which are foreseen come to pass. Therefore, although the people to whom Peter was writing had once been chosen according to God's foreknowledge, by the time he was writing to them their election had already taken place.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: We must not suppose that the Spirit knows God as we do, only through the historic revelation of the Son. For if the Holy Spirit knows God only in this way, then he has passed from ignorance to knowledge, and it is certainly as impious as it is foolish to confess him as the Holy Spirit and then ascribe a prior ignorance to him.<br/><i>— ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1.3.4</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"055c4fbcfc29f3be01471f1fd31a4e0dddf5effb26bc99422aad1e7792f6f737","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":781,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"749be382e4184d1c23ad6bf162d867d208bef4ddb1ce26e56614e06b92f06c36","translator":null,"work":null}