{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-255","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":15,"chapter_to":15,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":48,"verse_to":48},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: If you do not like the Christian faith, say so. But you will not find another Christian faith. There is one man unto life; there is one unto death. The one is only man; the other is God and man. Through the one the world was made the enemy of God. Through the other those chosen from the world are reconciled to God. For \"As in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.\" Therefore even as we have borne the image of the earthly, let us also bear the image of the heavenly. Whoever tries to undermine these foundations of the Christian faith will himself be destroyed, but they will remain firm.<br/><i>— AGAINST JULIAN 4</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The Lord who was heavenly became earthly that he might make heavenly those who were earthly. From immortal he became mortal by taking the form of a servant, not by changing the nature of the Lord, that he might make immortal those who were mortal by imparting the grace of the Lord, not by retaining the offense of the servant.<br/><i>— LETTER 205, TO CONSENTIUS</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Poitiers</b>: The blessed Apostle also perfectly describes this mystery of the ineffable birth of Christ's body in the words, The first man was from the soil of the ground, the second man from heaven. Calling Him `Man' he expresses His birth from the Virgin, who in the exercise of her office as mother, performed the duties of her sex in the conception and birth of man. And when he says, The second man from heaven he testifies His origin from the Holy Ghost, Who came upon the Virgin. As He is then man, and from heaven, this Man was born of the Virgin, and conceived of the Holy Ghost. So speaks the Apostle.<br/><i>— ON THE TRINITY 10.17</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: Paul, too, very plainly set forth the material, animal, and spiritual, saying in one place, \"As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy;\" and in another place, \"But the animal man receiveth not the things of the Spirit;\" and again: \"He that is spiritual judgeth all things.\"<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book I</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: The flesh, therefore, when destitute of the Spirit of God, is dead, not having life, and cannot possess the kingdom of God: [it is as] irrational blood, like water poured out upon the ground. And therefore he says, \"As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy.\" But where the Spirit of the Father is, there is a living man; [there is] the rational blood preserved by God for the avenging [of those that shed it]; [there is] the flesh possessed by the Spirit, forgetful indeed of what belongs to it, and adopting the quality of the Spirit, being made conformable to the Word of God. And on this account he (the apostle) declares, \"As we have borne the image of him who is of the earth, we shall also bear the image of Him who is from heaven.\" What, therefore, is the earthly? That which was fashioned. And what is the heavenly? The Spirit. As therefore he says, when we were destitute of the celestial Spirit, we walked in former times in the oldness of the flesh, not obeying God; so now let us, receiving the Spirit, walk in newness of life, obeying God. Inasmuch, therefore, as without the Spirit of God we cannot be saved, the apostle exhorts us through faith and chaste conversation to preserve the Spirit of God, lest, having become non-participators of the Divine Spirit, we lose the kingdom of heaven; and he exclaims, that flesh in itself, and blood, cannot possess the kingdom God.<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book V</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy:\" so shall they perish and have an end. \"As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly:\" so shall they abide immortal and glorious.</p><p>What then? Did not This Man too die? He died indeed, but received no injury therefrom, yea rather by this He put an end to death. Seest thou how on this part of his subject also, he makes use of death to establish the doctrine of the resurrection? \"For having, as I said before, the beginning and the head,\" so he speaks, \"doubt not of the whole body.\"</p><p>Moreover also he frames hereby his advice concerning the best way of living, proposing standards of a lofty and severe life and of that which is not such, and bringing forward the principles of both these, of the one Christ, but of the other Adam. Therefore neither did he simply say, \"of the earth,\" but \"earthy,\" i.e., \"gross, nailed down to things present:\" and again with respect to Christ the reverse, \"the Lord from heaven.\"</p><p>But if any should say, \"therefore the Lord hath not a body because He is said to be 'from heaven,'\" although what is said before is enough to stop their mouths: yet nothing hinders our silencing them from this consideration also: viz. what is, \"the Lord from heaven?\" Doth he speak of His nature, or His most perfect life? It is I suppose evident to every one that he speaks of His life.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 42</i></p><p><b>Maximus of Turin</b>: Adam is formed from mire by the hands of God. Christ is formed in the womb by the Spirit of God.<br/><i>— SERMON 50.2</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: You see what he shows, that, if you remain in that which is first, which is of the earth, you will be reprobated, unless you change yourself, unless you are converted, unless, having been made \"heavenly,\" you receive \"the image of the heavenly.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 9.2</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: \"As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.\" Such (does he mean), in substance; or first of all in training, and afterwards in the dignity and worth which that training aimed at acquiring? Not in substance, however, by any means will the earthy and the heavenly be separated, designated as they have been by the apostle once for all, as men.<br/><i>— On the Resurrection of the Flesh</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1664e53e8cd6ad0c53907f931431aba165ba7e930867bef12743d074c2a42920","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":255,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"fd5de1a2b0f0d58fad26947e90b9b0298c53b7fc1e4b093559d591ff85044835","translator":null,"work":null}