{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3453","native_reference":{"book_number":580,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"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>Clement of Alexandria</b>: \"As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith.\" Now persuasion is [the means of] being established in the faith. \"Beware lest any man spoil you of faith in Christ by philosophy and vain deceit,\" which does away with providence, \"after the tradition of men;\" for the philosophy which is in accordance with divine tradition establishes and confirms providence, which, being done away with, the economy of the Saviour appears a myth, while we are influenced \"after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.\" For the teaching which is agreeable to Christ deifies the Creator, and traces providence in particular events, and knows the nature of the elements to be capable of change and production, and teaches that we ought to aim at rising up to the power which assimilates to God, and to prefer the dispensation as holding the first rank and superior to all training.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 1</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Again, he takes hold on them beforehand with their own testimony, saying, \"As therefore ye received.\" We introduce no strange addition, he saith, neither do ye. \"Walk ye in Him,\" for He is the Way that leadeth to the Father: not in the Angels; this way leadeth not thither. \"Rooted,\" that is, fixed; not one while going this way, another that, but \"rooted\": now that which is rooted, never can remove. Observe how appropriate are the expressions he employs. \"And built up,\" that is, in thought attaining unto Him. \"And stablished\" in Him, that is, holding Him, built as on a foundation. He shows that they had fallen down, for the word \"built\" has this force. For the faith is in truth a building; and needs both a strong foundation, and secure construction. For both if any one build not upon a secure foundation it will shake; and even though he do, if it be not firm, it will not stand. \"As ye were taught.\" Again, the word \"As.\" \"Abounding,\" he saith, \"in thanksgiving\"; for this is the part of well-disposed persons, I say not simply to give thanks, but with great abundance, more than ye learned, if possible, with much ambition.<br/><i>— Homily on Colossians 6</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"561590f6e79c3040d4c1dd0a5ad2918378cdb8a9704ab3dcc3144003270b3517","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3453,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"cbd3d9385a483f4f2dbe1c66b921ffca8fddd6469a6292f977768b7d188d1a49","translator":null,"work":null}