{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-49","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"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>: It is a stumbling block to the Jews when they hear Christ calling himself the Son of God yet not observing the sabbath. It is foolishness to the Gentiles because they hear things like the virgin birth and the resurrection being preached but regard them as irrational.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: For as it was not possible that the man who had once for all been conquered, and who had been destroyed through disobedience, could reform himself, and obtain the prize of victory; and as it was also impossible that he could attain to salvation who had fallen under the power of sin,-the Son effected both these things, being the Word of God, descending from the Father, becoming incarnate, stooping low, even to death, and consummating the arranged plan of our salvation, upon whom [Paul], exhorting us unhesitatingly to believe, again says, \"Who shall ascend into heaven? that is, to bring down Christ; or who shall descend into the deep? that is, to liberate Christ again from the dead.\" Then he continues, \"If thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shall be saved.\" And he renders the reason why the Son of God did these things, saying, \"For to this end Christ both lived, and died, and revived, that He might rule over the living and the dead.\" And again, writing to the Corinthians, he declares, \"But we preach Christ Jesus crucified;\" and adds, \"The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?\"<br/><i>— Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 18)</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: What has empowered us is belief in Christ crucified. To the extent that we are lacking something in our faith, then we are missing out on what the power of God has to offer us.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 1.8.1-4</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: And, of course, it had been meet that the mystery of the passion itself should be figuratively set forth in predictions; and the more incredible (that mystery), the more likely to be \"a stumbling-stone,\" if it had been nakedly predicted; and the more magnificent, the more to be adumbrated, that the difficulty of its intelligence might seek (help from) the grace of God.<br/><i>— An Answer to the Jews</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Thus the very retribution which overtook both Jews and Greeks proves that God is both a jealous God and a Judge, inasmuch as He infatuated the world's wisdom by an angry and a judicial retribution. Since, then, the causes are in the hands of Him who gave us the Scriptures which we use, it follows that the apostle, when treating of the Creator, (as Him whom both Jew and Gentile as yet have) not known, means undoubtedly to teach us, that the God who is to become known (in Christ) is the Creator.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book V</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"511bd58d26f6dd580691908271368246b191b81ec070fca6a030a1b15a0a8944","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":49,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7da300b7d776b4b37e3f52758153ea3c67d57e586ee9539e9f9ab3cdf69c7826","translator":null,"work":null}