{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-858","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>Bede</b>: The end of all things is near. Let no one soothe themselves with the delay of the future judgment, in which he said that the living and the dead were to be judged; he prudently warns, for although the coming of the final judgment is uncertain, it is certain to all that in this mortal life they cannot long endure.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Be therefore prudent, etc. And the Lord in the Gospel has commanded us to always pray and watch, in view of the uncertain end. For he says, speaking of the day of judgment: Watch therefore, praying continually, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man (Luke XXI). But we are rightly ordered to watch in prayers, so that when we stand for prayer, all carnal and secular thought may depart, nor should the mind then think of anything except what it is praying for. For often the enemy sneaks in and subtly deceiving, distracts our prayers so that we both have one thing in our heart and utter another with our voice, whereas with sincere intention, it is not the sound of the voice but the sense of the soul that ought to pray to God.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: Peter is saying that once the gospel has been preached to the Gentiles the end will have come.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER</i></p><p><b>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: And pray ye without ceasing in behalf of other men; for there is hope of the repentance, that they may attain to God. For \"cannot he that falls arise again, and he that goes astray return? \" Permit them, then, to be instructed by you. Be ye therefore the ministers of God, and the mouth of Christ. For thus saith the Lord, \"If ye take forth the precious from the vile, ye shall be as my mouth.\" Be ye humble in response to their wrath; oppose to their blasphemies your earnest prayers; while they go astray, stand ye stedfast in the faith. Conquer ye their harsh temper by gentleness, their passion by meekness. For \"blessed are the meek ; \" and Moses was meek above all men; and David was exceeding meek. Wherefore Paul exhorts as follows: \"The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle towards all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves.\" Do not seek to avenge yourselves on those that injure you, for says [the Scripture], \"If I have returned evil to those who returned evil to me.\" Let us make them brethren by our kindness. For say ye to those that hate you, Ye are our brethren, that the name of the Lord may be glorified. And let us imitate the Lord, \"who, when He was reviled, reviled not again ; \" when He was crucified, He answered not; \"when He suffered, He threatened not ; \" but prayed for His enemies, \"Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.\" If any one, the more he is injured, displays the more patience, blessed is he. If any one is defrauded, if any one is despised, for the name of the Lord, he truly is the servant of Christ. Take heed that no plant of the devil be found among you, for such a plant is bitter and salt. \"Watch ye, and be ye sober,\" in Christ Jesus.<br/><i>— Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: The end of all things is at hand. Therefore, be sober and watchful in prayer. Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. Be hospitable to one another without complaint.<br/>The end, that is, completion, consummation or the end of all the prophets is said to be imminent: however, the true word is Christ, for He is the perfection of all. And not as the Greeks rave, who indeed say that pleasure is the end, like Epicurus, while others say wisdom or contemplation or virtue. Therefore, since perfection has come in Christ, Peter also says, having been made conformable to this perfection, present yourselves in all things without defect in sobriety, in vigilance for prayers (for the prayer of the sober or the watchful, and not of those who are held by the drunkenness of worldly things), in love for one another. Paul, however, says that this is the change of the law (Rom. 13:10): here indeed that it may cover sins. For mercy towards one's neighbor makes God merciful to us. This mercy would never proceed to what is righteous, unless it is out of great love. But where he mentions love, he also adds that those who are endowed with love, namely hospitality, which he commands to be shown without complaint; for this is the essence of true love.<br/>\"love covers a multitude.\" This means persevering and enduring and stretched out over a long period.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Peter</i></p><p><b>Polycarp of Smyrna</b>: \"For whosoever does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is antichrist;\" and whosoever does not confess the testimony of the cross, is of the devil; and whosoever perverts the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts, and says that there is neither a resurrection nor a judgment, he is the first-born of Satan. Wherefore, forsaking the vanity of many, and their false doctrines, let us return to the word which has been handed down to us from the beginning; \"watching unto prayer,\" and persevering in fasting; beseeching in our supplications the all-seeing God \"not to lead us into temptation,\" as the Lord has said: \"The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak.\"<br/><i>— Epistle to the Philippians 7</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9db4f570c291b3e866eaaab82535f6d10909dbd2f802fd95a57b51d4cf413778","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":858,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"72917ea339e439d3bab2f0a017dd068008ce7cb7c5fe946bcb99f3aca2f6e501","translator":null,"work":null}