{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2812","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>: And besides, the sequel is enough to bear him out on this point: so now the discourse is for all in common. \"But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel, And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith the Lord God.\" Nowhere as yet the name of Christ, nor His promises but the promise is that of the Father. Observe the wisdom: observe the considerate forbearance. He did not pass on to speak at once of the things relating to Christ; that He had promised this after His Crucifixion; truly that would have been to upset all. And yet, you will say, here was sufficient to prove His divinity. True, it was, if believed (and the very point was that it should be believed); but if not believed, it would have caused them to be stoned.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 5</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And he added nothing, but, \"This,\" says he, \"is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days.\" He shows, in fact, that the consummation is nigh at hand, and the words, \"In the last days,\" have a kind of emphasis.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 5</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Then he brought forward the prophecy of Joel, nowhere mentioning Christ here, and of the signs of which they were eyewitnesses, or that this had been his promise. For if he had said this, he would have overturned everything and exposed it to scorn; but he first introduces the Father who had promised these things to them through the prophet, and removes the envy; not, he says, to the apostles only, but to every flesh, clearly to those believing sincerely, and with character. For he does not mean the one who says to me, he says, \"Lord, Lord,\" (Matt. 7:21) but the one living a life of the best sort and doing this. He does not add this, making the word of the promise more burdensome and making it light, because the request alone suffices for salvation.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Since, then, Christ was announced by the Creator, \"who formeth the lightning, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ,\" as the prophet Joel says, since the entire hope of the Jews, not to say of the Gentiles too, was fixed on the manifestation of Christ,-it was demonstrated that they, by their being deprived of those powers of knowledge and understanding-wisdom and prudence, would fail to know and understand that which was predicted, even Christ; when the chief of their wise men should be in error respecting Him-that is to say, their scribes and prudent ones, or Pharisees; and when the people, like them, should hear with their ears and not understand Christ while teaching them, and see with their eyes and not perceive Christ, although giving them signs.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book III</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6139db63c8583a6bf365ef9643c7aac02654fcda0f72a0fbdc4df362f8018bff","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2812,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"83859def9492818db27ef551e04f86e930c5827a17e3b953ebfcd3679a45d838","translator":null,"work":null}