{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7487","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":44,"chapter_to":44,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"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>Jerome</b>: (Vers. 22) I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. LXX: Behold, I have blotted out your iniquities as a cloud, and your sins as a mist. Return to me, and I will redeem you. Because these things are completely destroyed in the coming of my chosen child, therefore with all the eagerness of your mind, understand that just as a cloud and darkness, and mist, either dissolve in the heat of the sun, or are weakened by the wind that carries them away: so I will dissolve your iniquities and all the sins by which you have previously offended me. Just return to me and repent, for you are to be redeemed by precious blood.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: And thus, through each and every kind of malice, as though by diverse colors gathered together, you paint upon yourself this \"image of the earthly,\" which God did not make in you. Therefore he is to be entreated by us who says through the prophet: \"Behold, I blot out your iniquities as a cloud, and your sins as a mist.\" And when he has blotted out in you all those colors which were taken from the dyes of malice, then there shines forth again in you that image which was created by God. You see, then, how the divine scriptures introduce forms and figures by which the soul may be taught unto the acknowledgment or the cleansing of itself.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 13.4</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: God pardoned Israel's sins when he brought them out of the Babylonian captivity. But, really and truly, it was only after the incarnation that God forgave the sins of those who believed in him. He removed the cloud of their sins and supplied them with eternal life.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 13:44.22</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"74a46dffc774d495f431e40ef7f32eb2785c687f5570d27e9af866e10456d929","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7487,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a7ae22a5332ec6352c088e803806ebf8769f450ed95bce0a4d6e4decb3b2ff05","translator":null,"work":null}