{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4322","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>Jerome</b>: Christ himself is rightly called goodness, righteousness and truth. He is goodness in that he gives grace to those who believe in him, not according to their works but according to his mercy. He is himself righteousness in that he gives to each what he deserves. He is himself truth in that he is the one who knows the causes of all creatures and all things.<br/><i>— Commentary on Ephesians 5:9</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"In all goodness,\" he says: this is opposed to the angry, and the bitter: \"and righteousness\"; this to the covetous: \"and truth\"; this to false pleasure: not those former things, he says, which I was mentioning, but their opposites. \"In all\"; that is, the fruit of the Spirit ought to be evinced in everything. \"Proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord\"; so that those things are tokens of a childish and imperfect mind.<br/><i>— Homily on Ephesians 18</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Where there is goodness, there is righteousness. Where there is truth, there you will find righteousness. For both goodness and truth belong to God alone. So righteousness is always found with him and no other.<br/><i>— EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f98446eea8d9a349961452690c12f048ac20b0aad4e2b532f387aa935e102f20","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4322,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"890ab5a645c6cae99ae7e4d47197c46e9f3b25f2eeeeb7f2daf0d58b693e7cdc","translator":null,"work":null}