{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7547","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":48,"chapter_to":48,"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Now it is Jesus Christ who is speaking here as the \"Lord God\"; yet this would not have been obvious if he had not added the final words, \"And now the Lord God has sent me and his Spirit.\" These words were spoken by Christ in his \"form\" as a \"servant.\" He used a verb in the past tense to indicate a future event.<br/><i>— City of God 20.30</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Moreover, He could not be sent by the Father without the Holy Spirit, not only because the Father, when He sent Him, that is, when He made Him of a woman, is certainly understood not to have so made Him without His own Spirit; but also because it is most plainly and expressly said in the Gospel in answer to the Virgin Mary, when she asked of the angel, \"How shall this be?\" \"The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee.\" And Matthew says, \"She was found with child of the Holy Ghost.\" Although, too, in the prophet Isaiah, Christ Himself is understood to say of His own future advent, \"And now the Lord God and His Spirit hath sent me.\"<br/><i>— ON THE TRINITY 2:2.8</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Alexandria</b>: Those who look toward the Savior do not attribute grace for salvation to other gods but to him. For it is said about him that he was moved by love, that is, he was most loving and kind to them in that he was prepared to go all the way to the very end, to the uprooting of the seed of the Chaldeans, that is, those who fought against them and perpetrated all sorts of inhuman acts.… I am spurred by love for you that I will do what is your pleasure in the land of the Babylonians, so that the seed of the Chaldeans will be removed. For [Isaiah] speaks here about Cyrus.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 4:3.48:15-16</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: \"From the time this plague came to be\" in all my people, \"I have been there.\" In order that the words he had spoken may not be despised by the sorcerers, the text shows that they do not belong to the prophet as such, but to the Lord and his Spirit, who sent the prophet to preach to them. Indeed, the prophet clearly said as if from the person of the Lord, \"I am in all my people, and my right hand extends to the heavens.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 48:16</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: And hear these things that from the beginning were spoken in secret, that is, through the enigmas and mysteries of the Prophets, which were unknown to all previous generations. When all things were made by the Father, he was with him, who rejoiced, who even now says: I who have always been with the Father, and in the Father, and have never been without the Father, even now I speak; and according to the frailty of the assumed flesh, I say that the Lord God sent me and his spirit: and in a brief verse, the sacrament of the Trinity is revealed to us.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Did the Father and the Holy Spirit send Jesus, or did the Father send both Christ and the Spirit? The latter is correct. For, because the Savior was sent, afterwards the Holy Spirit was sent also, that the prediction of the prophet might be fulfilled.<br/><i>— AGAINST CELSUS 1:46</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: According to Isaiah the Lord has sent Christ and his Spirit.… It is also possible there to allege of the Spirit that sent the Christ that he does not excel him in nature but that the Savior was made to seek greater lowliness because of the plan of the incarnation.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF John 2:79.81</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Since you have not believed the gloomy predictions, believe, then, at least in the prophecies of encouragement. For I do not prophesy falsely in dark, inaccessible places after the manner of the [oracles of] idols. But I know these things clearly before their occurrence since I am present to the events themselves and see each one. \"And now the Lord has sent me as well as his Spirit.\" It is the prophet who made this declaration. He says, \"I do not speak on my own authority but because the God of the universe and the holiest Spirit has sent me.\" Now [the text] demonstrates here that there is another person besides God, the person of the Spirit, so as to refute the Jews and the mad ravings of Sabellius. For [Isaiah] said, \"The Lord sent me as well as his Spirit.\" For Sabellius often taught the one deity of God.… He must also teach about the particular characteristics of the persons, sometimes that of the Son and that of the Father, sometimes that of the Father and that of the Holy Spirit.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Isaiah 15:48.16</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"ee6b025eb526df9a42688d203141e9fd14e02f55c74abdb87a3b1b78550edf37","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7547,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"de7323631991261e86039142b5fa54a532a33be5eb52ef46596da975bc83b384","translator":null,"work":null}