{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-852","native_reference":{"book_number":670,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"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>Athanasius of Alexandria</b>: The apostle did not say that Christ died in his divinity but in his flesh, so as to emphasize that it was not his divine nature which suffered but his human one. The sufferings are those of the one to whom the body belongs. Since the flesh belonged to the Word, the sufferings of the flesh must be attributed to the Word as well.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: The apostle Peter gave this comfort to those of us who are bound by the chains of persecution.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts 12.7</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Because he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sins, etc. Whoever among the saints has subjected his body to martyrdom under the violence of persecutors, there is no doubt that, as much as possible given human nature, he has abstained from sins until the end of his life. For what could he think about perpetrating sin, what about carnal desires, what but the will of God could he entertain in his mind, who, whether affixed to a cross, surrounded by blows of stones, subdued by the bites of beasts, placed upon flames, pierced by the whips of scorpions, or afflicted by any other kind of punishment, was compelled to desire only this: that with the battle ended, he might receive the crown of life? Therefore, blessed Peter wishes us always to imitate the minds of such people, when he instructs us to arm ourselves with the same thought against the wickedness of the depraved and against the delights of vices, proposing the example of the Lord's passion, wishing it to be understood that even we, resting in the peace of the Church, if we assume the disposition of a sufferer, easily avoid the falls of all sins and submit all desires to the commands of divine will, aided by the Lord. Finally, even the Psalmist prays to the Lord, saying: \"Pierce my flesh with your fear, for I am in awe of your judgments\" (Psalms 118). And the Apostle: \"Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires\" (Galatians 5). Therefore, whoever extinguishes carnal desires in the mind with the fear of heavenly judgments, already similar to the crucified and suffering for Christ, lives dead to sins, living only in service to God.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: In order that Christ might be believed to be the Savior of all, according to their appropriation of his incarnation, he assumed the sufferings of his own flesh, as was foretold in Isaiah [50:6]: \"I gave my back to lashes, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; I did not turn away my face from the disgrace of their spittings.\"<br/><i>— LETTERS 39</i></p><p><b>Nicetas of Remesiana</b>: Christ did not suffer in his divinity but in his flesh. God can never suffer. Christ suffered in the flesh, as the apostle teaches, so that from his wounds might flow salvation to humanity. This was foretold by the prophet Isaiah: Christ suffered for our sins so that grace might be given to us.<br/><i>— EXPLANATION OF THE CREED 5</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Since Christ suffered in the flesh for you, arm yourselves with the same thought: for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.<br/>The order is as follows: Therefore, since Christ has died in the flesh, you also should arrange yourselves according to the same thought: for you have died, namely, to the world: moreover, he who has died has ceased from sin, etc.<br/>\"the same thought.\" That is, according to the same intention and the same purpose. For due to the lack of intention, it is said κατὰ, that is, \"according to\".<br/>\"he who has suffered in the flesh:\" that is, He has died, saying similar things with Paul: \"If we have died with Christ, we shall also live with Him. And indeed we will be dead to sin, but we will live to God.\" (Rom. 6:8-10)<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 Peter</i></p><p><b>Severus of Antioch</b>: By proclaiming that he would suffer and die in the flesh, Christ was indicating that he was passible in his flesh but impassible in his divinity. The ineffable union of the two natures did not cut him in two, for he remains one Lord, one Christ and one Son, one person and one hypostasis, that of the Word incarnate. By becoming man he became capable of suffering and death, but in the divine nature which he had from eternity he remained impassible and consubstantial with the Father and the Son. But insofar as he was consubstantial with us also, he was able to partake of our sufferings and did so willingly and in truth.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"fcccb56e748e5bf4d65dcba6a707651e4891ea1bce18f31b9275338156678177","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":852,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"22757073398566f917e9bb3ee8c6a2d21475928397ea7def44e6eb441026579a","translator":null,"work":null}