{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7496","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":45,"chapter_to":45,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>: To one who believes, a promise is given by God: \"I will give you hidden treasures, unseen ones.\" When we have been deemed worthy of knowledge face to face, we shall see also the depth in the storehouses of God.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE Psalms 15:5 (Psalms 32)</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nazianzus</b>: Who is the person whose heart has never been made to burn, as the Scriptures have been opened, with the pure words of God that have been tried in a furnace;16 who has not, by a triple inscription of them on the breadth of his heart, attained the mind of Christ, or been admitted to the treasures that to most people remain hidden, secret and dark, to gaze on the riches therein and become able to enrich others, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.<br/><i>— IN DEFENSE OF HIS FLIGHT TO PONTUS, ORATION 2:96</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: (Verse 3) I will give you the treasures of darkness and riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that it is I, the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name. Therefore, God addresses Cyrus himself: I have given you treasures and hidden riches of all cities, so that you, who previously worshipped idols, would acknowledge one God through my blessings, especially since you know that your name was foretold long before you were born. Which indeed Josephus also relates in the eleventh book of Jewish Antiquities, that Cyrus read of himself prophesied by name by Isaiah, and therefore the Jews loved him greatly as if he were one of God's own familiar ones.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>John Cassian</b>: Then the word of God will precede us and first humble the powerful of our earth—that is, these same harmful passions that we wish to subdue and that claim dominion for themselves and a most cruel tyranny in our mortal body—and it will make them submit to our investigation and our exposure. And, breaking open the gates of ignorance and smashing the bolts of the vices that shut us out from true knowledge, it will lead us to our concealed secrets and, according to the apostle, it will, once we have been enlightened, reveal to us \"the hidden things of darkness and make manifest the counsels of hearts.\"<br/><i>— INSTITUTES 5:2.2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"I will give you the treasures of darkness.\" … This is the way [Isaiah] referred to hell. Even if it was hell, it still preserved the sacred souls and precious vessels, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This is why Isaiah called it a place of treasures, even if in darkness, because the Sun of justice had not yet penetrated there with its rays or with any message on the resurrection.<br/><i>— DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE PAGANS 4:14-15</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: The higher and profounder spiritual meaning is the \"hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge,\" which the Holy Spirit speaking through Isaiah calls \"dark and unseen and concealed treasures.\" These treasures require for their discovery the help of God, who alone is able to \"break in pieces the gates of brass\" by which they are shut in and concealed and to burst the iron bolts and bars that prevent us from entering in and reaching all those truths written in veiled language in Genesis concerning the various races of souls and the seeds and generations named there, whether closely akin to Israel or widely separated from his posterity.<br/><i>— ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 4:3.11</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"459d606822d7635ee3d81b3e728cdd905e3bc35c0f10a1f5a85281a8db05197e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7496,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"9c182344034d733d37ce688d5274feca8e932ad26e7b39457359e6631735d050","translator":null,"work":null}