{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6717","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For the Law made nothing perfect.\" What is, \"make nothing perfect\"? Made no man perfect, being disobeyed. And besides, even if it had been listened to, it would not have made one perfect and virtuous. But as yet he does not say this here, but that it had no strength: and with good reason. For written precepts were there set down, Do this and Do not that, being enjoined only, and not giving power within. But \"the Hope\" is not such.</p><p>What is \"a disannulling\"? A casting out. A \"disannulling\" is a disannulling of things which are of force. So that he implied, that it once was of force, but henceforward was of no account, since it accomplished nothing. Was the Law then of no use? It was indeed of use; and of great use: but to make men perfect it was of no use. For in this respect he says, \"The Law made nothing perfect.\" All were figures, all shadows; circumcision, sacrifice, sabbath. Therefore they could not reach through the soul, wherefore they pass away and gradually withdraw. \"But the bringing in of a better hope did, by which we draw nigh unto God.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 13</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But the bringing in of a better hope.\" For that system also had a hope, but not such as this. For they hoped that, if they were well pleasing to God, they should possess the land, that they should suffer nothing fearful. But in this dispensation we hope that, if we are well pleasing to God, we shall possess not earth, but heaven; or rather (which is far better than this) we hope to stand near to God, to come unto the very throne of the Father, to minister unto Him with the Angels. And see how he introduces these things by little and little. For above he says \"which entereth into that within the veil\", but here, \"by which we draw nigh unto God.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 13</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: For the law was not able to produce any perfection in virtue. For it only said, \"Do this,\" and \"Do not do that,\" and it was no longer able to strengthen and assist in bringing about what was said, which now happens to us through the Spirit.<br/>\"but is a certain introduction.\" It is done in common.<br/>\"of a greater hope.\" For the law had hope, but not such as that which was introduced. For those who were observing the law hoped to possess the land. \"For you shall eat the good things of the land,\" (Is. 1:19) but the hope through Christ gives the kingdom of heaven, and the nearness to stand before God, and to serve Him with angels.He said above (Heb. 4:6): Entering into the inner part of the veil; but now: Through which we draw near to God, he says; for the hope that is with him leads us to the divine throne, and stands with the Cherubim.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"eddaccd80f92f12a17938c66e6b60b738f960eb0abc2e4649978726e9a76b199","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6717,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1fb0f338f7d6c0fbfec6e3b7fd93acc2c20acfe78f1b80c112eabe939c1212d3","translator":null,"work":null}