{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-505","native_reference":{"book_number":690,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>: Well then, what are we to do concerning sins and iniquities? Hear what He saith: \"And ye know that He was manifested to take away sin; and sin in Him is not.\" He, in Whom sin is not, the same is come to take away sin. For were there sin in Him, it must be taken away from Him, not He take it away Himself.<br/><i>— Ten Homilies on 1 John 4</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: And you know that He appeared to take away sins, etc. John the Baptist also bore witness to this about the Lord, saying: Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world. The Lord was able to take away sins because there was no sin in Him. Many and so great men came into the world perfect, but none of them could take away the sins of the world, because none could be without sin in the world. Therefore, let not Pelagius boast, nor let Julian, his follower, exalt himself, hearing that everyone who has hope in the Lord sanctifies himself. For no one takes away sins, which even the law, although holy and just and good, could not remove, except Him in whom there is no sin. He takes them away by both forgiving what has been done and helping that it may not be done, and by leading to a life where it is utterly impossible for them to be committed.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: There is no sin in Christ because he was not conceived in sin as we are.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: And you know that He appeared to take away our sins: and in Him, there is no sin. Everyone who abides in Him does not sin. Everyone who sins has not seen Him nor known Him.<br/>\"And you know that He appeared.\" You can no longer have a place for sinning. For when Christ came to take away our sins, since he was not a partaker of sin, it has not been left to you to sin any longer, you who have come to him and have been confirmed in his faith. For this is what he means when he says:<br/>\"Everyone who abides in Him.\" But this is the one who approaches virtues seriously and without pretense, and never ceases from their operation.<br/>\"and in Him, there is no sin.\" The conjunction \"καὶ\" is taken for \"and.\"<br/>\"Everyone who sins\" and so on. When John had said that he had appeared, and the reason for his appearing, namely to take away our sins, that is, to remove and erase them from the midst, as one who had not sinned, he adds: \"Everyone who sins has not seen him.\"<br/>But if you, John said, who saw him while he was revealed, also received a sign [σημεῖον] that you have seen him, namely that you are not easily caught by sin as if perfectly confirmed in him, certainly those who sin have not seen him, and therefore nor have known him: saying that they have seen and known not according to the bare sight of the eyes, nor that they have acted towards knowledge according to a simplistic imagination, but that they have approached him with some judgment and knowledge, as we said above.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 John</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1fdbf792693c2bb45a8a6cfc57e30fb87c3b00f989f5871339b1476482306e18","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":505,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7835a4cc655821fd677efc8ff2f8c22226334a6e1bbfc295935d10502691d719","translator":null,"work":null}