{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-1813","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":26,"verse_to":26},"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>Ambrosiaster</b>: Paul was in danger from rivers in winter, when there was constant rain and rivers often overflowed their banks. The danger at sea which he is alluding to here was the danger that in a shipwreck the soldiers guarding prisoners on board would kill them all rather than risk letting them swim to safety..<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: There are, therefore, some who hold the honourable office of shepherds in order that they may provide for the flock of Christ; others occupy that position that they may enjoy the temporal honours and secular advantages connected with the office. It must needs happen that these two kinds of pastors, some dying, others succeeding them, should continue in the Catholic Church even to the end of time, and the judgment of the Lord. If, then, in the times of the apostles there were men such that Paul, grieved by their conduct, enumerates among his trials, \"perils among false brethren,\" and yet he did not haughtily cast them out, but patiently bore with them, how much more must such arise in our times, since the Lord most plainly says concerning this age which is drawing to a close, \"that because iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold.\" The word which follows, however, ought to console and exhort us, for He adds, \"He that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved.\"<br/><i>— Letter 208, To Felicia</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: What great complaints the apostle Paul makes of false brothers. Yet he was not defiled by their physical companionship, because he was set apart from them by this distinction: purity of heart.<br/><i>— LETTER 108, TO MACROBIUS</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"In perils of rivers.\" For he was compelled also to cross rivers. \"In perils of robbers, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness.\" 'Everywhere were contests set before me, in places, in countries, in cities, in deserts.' \"In perils from the Gentiles, in perils amongst false brethren.\" Behold another kind of warfare. For not only did such as were enemies strike at him, but those also who played the hypocrite; and he had need of much firmness, much prudence.<br/><i>— Homily 25 on 2 Corinthians</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"8cdf09552926cb82e6bc663744c0d832b95c367f80317266af1cf1290bdb4564","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":1813,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2b9b6ca2953c5f2f3fe1b89eb069dcfc4813da2be76cd2693fe1838dbecb96aa","translator":null,"work":null}