{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7639","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":52,"chapter_to":52,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"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>: That is, he extended his hands to a people who did not believe and contradicted: not seeking an ambassador or messenger, but desiring to save his own people, the Lord himself: 'I, who spoke, behold I am here,' he said. And so, openly, I appear to those who do not seek me, and I am visible to those who do not ask me.<br/><i>— On Joseph the Patriarch, 12.67</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: [Christ] was not speaking as a teacher but as the Lord. He was not speaking in reference to a greater authority, but he was teaching that which was his very own. Particularly, he was speaking in this manner because he who had spoken by the prophets was speaking now in person. \"It is I who have foretold it, Here I am!\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Mark 76 (Mark 1:3-31)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f2239974970b645fc86ac4d13b9a1e49231b93cc2260d0dc33f99e7dfff5af3c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7639,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"9bf699241955ab5be93357742d0b3df28e672c80b01812c17da0cadc8b3b1b1d","translator":null,"work":null}