{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3230","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":39,"verse_to":39},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: But they did not hear him, keeping their disobedience, even after the miracles: \"To whom,\" he says, \"our fathers would not obey:\" after the wonders done in those forty years. And not only so, but just the contrary: \"but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 17</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Then follows the charge, in the first instance, against the patriarchs [after], the \"signs and wonders,\" after the receiving of the \"lively oracles: To whom,\" he says, \"our fathers would not obey.\" But concerning those, Ezekiel says that they are not \"living;\" as when he says, \"And I gave you statutes that are not good.\" It is with reference to those that he says, \"Living. But thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt\"-the place where they groaned, where they cried, whence they called upon God.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 17</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: For, withal, according to the memorial records of the divine Scriptures, the people of the Jews-that is, the more ancient-quite forsook God, and did degrading service to idols, and, abandoning the Divinity, was surrendered to images; while \"the people\" said to Aaron, \"Make us gods to go before us.\" And when the gold out of the necklaces of the women and the rings of the men had been wholly smelted by fire, and there had come forth a calf-like head, to this figment Israel with one consent (abandoning God) gave honour, saying, \"These are the gods who brought us from the land of Egypt.<br/><i>— An Answer to the Jews</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: How, therefore, can such a hydra of delinquencies fail to offend the Lord, the Disapprover of evils? Is it not manifest that it was through impatience that Israel himself also always failed in his duty toward God, from that time when, forgetful of the heavenly arm whereby he had been drawn out of his Egyptian affliction, he demands from Aaron \"gods as his guides; \"when he pours down for an idol the contributions of his gold: for the so necessary delays of Moses, while he met with God, he had borne with impatience.<br/><i>— Of Patience</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d49b65f8c6e6655dac6282c482f31c784d154bff30def142a1adec6bc06befc0","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3230,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"689525d36c850f4682ddc28170885d7d0d2fdd90d08c9acb6d24334e600e28eb","translator":null,"work":null}