{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2354","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"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>Basil of Caesarea</b>: If we offer glory to God in the Spirit, we mean that the Spirit enables us to fulfill the requirements of true religion. According to this usage, then, we say we are in the Spirit, but it is not objectionable for someone to testify, \"the Spirit of God is in me, and I offer glory because his grace has given me the wisdom to do so.\" The words of Paul are appropriate: \"I think that I have the Spirit of God,\" and \"guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.\"<br/><i>— ON THE HOLY SPIRIT 26.63</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"That good thing which was committed unto thee keep,\"-how?-\"by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.\" For it is not in the power of a human soul, when instructed with things so great, to be sufficient for the keeping of them. And why? Because there are many robbers, and thick darkness, and the devil still at hand to plot against us; and we know not what is the hour, what the occasion for him to set upon us. How then, he means, shall we be sufficient for the keeping of them? \"By the Holy Ghost\"; that is if we have the Spirit with us, if we do not expel grace, He will stand by us. For, \"Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.\" (Ps. cxxvii. 1.) This is our wall, this our castle, this our refuge. If therefore It dwelleth in us, and is Itself our guard, what need of the commandment? That we may hold It fast, may keep It, and not banish It by our evil deeds.<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 3</i></p><p><b>John Damascene</b>: Before all things, keep that truth which is committed to your trust, the holy Word of faith by which you have been taught and instructed. And let no weeds of heresy grow up among you, but preserve the heavenly seed pure and sincere, that it may yield a great harvest to the master, when he comes to demand account of our lives. He shall reward us according to our deeds, when the righteous shall shine forth as the sun, but darkness and everlasting shame shall cover the sinners.<br/><i>— BARLAAM AND IOASAPH 36.335</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: But here is, as we have said, the same madness, in their allowing indeed that the apostles were ignorant of nothing, and preached not any (doctrines) which contradicted one another, but at the same time insisting that they did not reveal all to all men, for that they proclaimed some openly and to all the world, whilst they disclosed others (only) in secret and to a few, because Paul addressed even this expression to Timothy: \"O Timothy, guard that which is entrusted to thee; \" and again: \"That good thing which was committed unto thee keep.\" What is this deposit? Is it so secret as to be supposed to characterize a new doctrine? or is it a part of that charge of which he says, \"This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy? \" and also of that precept of which he says, \"I charge thee in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Jesus Christ who witnessed a good confession under Pontius Pilate, that thou keep this commandment? \" Now, what is (this) commandment and what is (this) charge? From the preceding and the succeeding contexts, it will be manifest that there is no mysterious hint darkly suggested in this expression about (some) far-fetched doctrine, but that a warning is rather given against receiving any other (doctrine) than that which Timothy had heard from himself, as I take it publicly: \"Before many witnesses\" is his phrase.<br/><i>— The Prescription Against Heretics</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d150a5ee5b245c985f7d088909383aaa86c73bdefb083648a61ac8f2a086972d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2354,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"927ab18711265fe38ef3e3c58bc0d9b182e9547ef766508483d802b0bd79c8b7","translator":null,"work":null}