{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6935","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"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>Athanasius of Alexandria</b>: For actions not done lawfully and piously are not of advantage, though they may be reputed to be so, but they rather argue hypocrisy in those who venture upon them. Therefore, although such persons feign to offer sacrifices, yet they hear from the Father, \"Your whole burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices do not please me\"; and although you bring fine flour, it is vanity; incense also is an abomination to me.\"<br/><i>— Letter 19.2</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: How, tell me, can festivals that God hates be intended for continual and uninterrupted observance? Are we to say that God changed his mind, and that ordinances God originally said to be good, when he established them through Moses, are ridiculed by the prophets, so that we must conclude he who enjoined them made a mistake, and that he is subject to the same infirmities that afflict us?… He was in favor of the good for the ancients, but he wished, rather, that by passing from symbols and shadows into the beauty of the truth, they should commend the worship most well pleasing to him, and it is clear that such worship is intellectual and in spirit.<br/><i>— AGAINST JULIAN 9</i></p><p><b>Epistle of Barnabas</b>: Further, He says to them, \"Your new moons and your Sabbath I cannot endure.\" Ye perceive how He speaks: Your present Sabbaths are not acceptable to Me, but that is which I have made, [namely this,] when, giving rest to all things, I shall make a beginning of the eighth day, that is, a beginning of another world. Wherefore, also, we keep the eighth day with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead.<br/><i>— The Epistle of Barnabas, Chapter XV</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Ver. 13.) You will not trample on my courtyard. Note that after the devastation of Babylon, the Temple was built again by Zerubbabel: and for many years sacrifices have been offered in the Temple (1 Esdras, 5). Therefore, it indicates the final destruction of the Temple under Vespasian and Titus, which will persist until the end of the world.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Listen to the words of the inspired writer: \"Incense is an abomination to me\"—as if to suggest the bad intention of the one offering the sacrifice. You see, just as in the present case the good person's virtue transformed the smoke and stench into an odor of fragrance, so in their case the malice of the one making the offering caused the fragrant incense to smell like an abomination. Consequently, let us earnestly take every opportunity, I beseech you, to demonstrate a sound attitude. This, after all, proves responsible for all our good things. You see, the good Lord is accustomed to heed not so much what is done from our own resources as the intention within, on which we depend for our first move in doing these things, and he looks to that in either approving what is done by us or disapproving it. So whether we pray, or fast, or practice almsgiving (these, after all, being our spiritual sacrifices) or perform any other spiritual work, let us begin with a pure intention in performing it so that we may procure a reward worthy of our efforts.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 27:8</i></p><p><b>Leo the Great</b>: When, from the teaching of ancient doctrine, dearly beloved, we undertake the fast of September to purify our souls and bodies, we are not subjecting ourselves to legal burdens. We are embracing the good use of self-restraint that serves the gospel of Christ. In this too, Christian virtue can \"exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees,\" not by making void the law but by rejecting worldly wisdom.<br/><i>— SERMON 92:2</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Tell me, you who gather to church only on feast days: are the other days not festal? Are they not days of the Lord? It belongs to the Jews to observe certain rare days as solemn feasts; and therefore God says to them that \"your new moons and sabbaths and the great day I do not endure. Your fasting and holidays and feast days my soul hates.\" God therefore hates those who think that the feast day of the Lord is on one day only.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 10.3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"34b94e6d4d4393e2efd63ccdb67fa4115426bbd4256c4ee595541438fd8a78b8","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6935,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a9bda29f91a53ab2a70d8cefe564f864db1b2f942a0c982c51b3561cc3920cec","translator":null,"work":null}