{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2158","native_reference":{"book_number":680,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>Andreas of Caesarea</b>: Lest you be judged unmindful of God's gift, you must stand fast, having a sure calling.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Wherefore, brethren, be more eager to make your calling and election sure through good works. Many are called, but few are chosen (Matt. 20, 22). The calling of all who come to faith is certain; but those who diligently add good works to the sacraments of faith they have received make their calling and election sure to those who observe them. Conversely, those who return to sins after their calling, when they depart from this life in these sins, already make it certain to all that they are reprobate.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: By doing these things, you will never sin. He speaks of greater sins, which anyone who commits will not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God, and from which everyone who devotes himself to the aforementioned virtues remains immune before the Lord. Otherwise, there are minor sins, about which it is written: \"There is not a just man upon earth, that does good\" (Eccl. 7); and \"in your sight no one living is justified\" (Ps. 142).<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: Peter is telling us that we should not be content with our baptism but should go on and grow in our faith.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Therefore, brothers, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. For in this way, an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.<br/>Therefore, Peter says, my brothers, make every effort to confirm your calling and election as permanent and unchangeable, that is, the teaching you heard regarding your election and calling, so that you may be blameless: do not be judged as if you have forgotten the gift of God, but remain steadfast having your calling secure.<br/>\"For if you do these things.\" What are these? Those which have been predicted, namely virtue, knowledge, temperance, and the other things that follow. Notice, however, how orderly it is that those things which were fearsome are now directed through good to the entrance of the eternal kingdom of the Lord.<br/><i>— Commentary on 2 Peter</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"207732df8c330dc89de087c30b4ded2e0a2e78d2a9f42118b97d9bea2db7103c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2158,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c486d10d6aaf4a39260c2cd532a4d8bd13bdad8f65d9f9f02532cd746a898cd3","translator":null,"work":null}