{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-798","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"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 ((as quoted by Cassiodorus))</b>: \"By precious blood,\" he says, [1 Peter 1:19] \"as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.\" Here he touches on the ancient Levitical and sacerdotal celebrations; but means a soul pure through righteousness which is offered to God.<br/><i>— From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: We are God's creatures, but because of sin we have passed under the rule of the devil. Because of that, the Savior has bought us back with his own blood—\"you are bought with a price.\" Indeed, we have been bought with Christ's precious blood. Think of a righteous and good householder who does not regard a wicked servant as worthy to serve in his house but hands him over to someone who will correct him. If he then sees his servant being punished by a wicked master and saying: \"I will go back to my first master, for he was good to me then and he will be good to me now,\" he will give him back his honor and redeem him, so that he might become a productive person. This is what God has done for us. How is it that we both belong to him and do not belong to him at the same time? As creatures we belong to him, but as sinners we have become alien to him and do not belong to him any more. Do not think that you belong to God if you are a sinner, for in that case the devil has got hold of you, and you are his creature. The man of sin, the son of destruction, it is he who has bought you, with blood which is not precious but impure. Indeed, you have been bought by sin, you have been bought by harlotry, and you are impure.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius</b>: And the Jews even now exhibit a figure of this transaction when they mark their thresholds with the blood of a lamb. For when God was about to smite the Egyptians, to secure the Hebrews from that infliction He had enjoined them to slay a white lamb without spot, and to place on their thresholds a mark from its blood. And thus, when the first-born of the Egyptians had perished in one night, the Hebrews alone were saved by the sign of the blood: not that the blood of a sheep had such efficacy in itself as to be the safety of men, but it was an image of things to come. For Christ was the white lamb without spot; that is, He was innocent, and just, and holy, who, being slain by the same Jews, is the salvation of all who have written on their foreheads the sign of blood-that is, of the cross, on which He shed His blood.<br/><i>— The Divine Institutes Book 4</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: \" And, for fear you should fly to that statement for a licence to fornication, on the ground that you will be sinning against a thing which is yours, not the Lord's, he takes you away from yourself, and awards you, according to his previous disposition, to Christ: \"And ye are not your own; \"immediately opposing (thereto), \"for bought ye are with a price\"-the blood, to wit, of the Lord: \"glorify and extol the Lord in your body.<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9514218dbca5a7f12bc7718dd1a4f2473d9d47ee494d4b6225a9d13ab801e7bf","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":798,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"136c8e0ccc566059b80979821274f794c131110764c8a10a7ee49002c6b1f495","translator":null,"work":null}