{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6644","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>Cassiodorus</b>: \"Today\" means always, for the one who gives us advice pertaining to salvation must always have our attention. The Apostle expressed the meaning of this word powerfully: \"But encourage one another every day, as long as it is called 'today.' \"<br/><i>— EXPOSITION OF THE Psalms 94.7</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: Take also another like expression. \"To this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their minds.\" Does \"to this day\" mean \"up to the time that Paul wrote the words and no longer\"? Does it not mean until this present day and indeed to the very end? And if Paul should say, \"We are come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ, having hope, when your faith is increased, to preach the gospel in lands beyond you,\" you can see clearly that the phrase \"all the way\" sets no limit but indicates what lies beyond. With what meaning, therefore, ought you to recall the words \"till he has put all enemies\"? Just the same as in another saying of Paul, \"But exhort each other daily, as long as it is called 'today,' \" which clearly means for all time. For as we must not talk of a beginning of the days of Christ, so never suffer anyone to speak of an end of his kingdom. For Scripture says, \"his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.\"<br/><i>— Catechetical Lecture 15:32</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: \"Give us this day our superessential bread.\" Ordinary bread is not \"superessential,\" but this holy bread is superessential in the sense of being ordained for the essence of the soul. Not of this bread is it said that it \"passes into the stomach and is discharged into the drain.\" No, it is absorbed into your whole system to the benefit of both soul and body. By \"this day\" he means \"daily,\" as in Paul's \"while it is called 'today.' \"<br/><i>— MYSTAGOGICAL LECTURES 5.15</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Wherefore \"exhort ye one another daily, while it is called to-day.\" That is, edify one another, raise yourselves up: lest the same things should befall you. \"Lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.\" Seest thou that sin produces unbelief? For as unbelief brings forth an evil life, so also a soul, \"when it is come into a depth of evils, becometh contemptuous\", and having become contemptuous it endures not even to believe, in order thereby to free itself from fear. For \"they said\", \"The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard.\" And again, \"Our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?\"; and again \"Wherefore hath the wicked man provoked God to wrath?\"; and again, \"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; they are corrupt and become abominable in their doings.\" \"There is no fear of God before his eyes, for he was deceitful before Him, to find out his iniquity and to hate.\" Yea and Christ also says this same thing, \"Every one that doeth evil, hateth the light and cometh not to the light.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 6</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"To-day,\" that they might never be without hope. \"Exhort one another daily,\" he says, \"while it is called today,\" that is, even if a man have sinned, as long as it is \"To-day,\" he has hope: let no man then despair so long as he lives. Above all things indeed, he says, \"let there not be an evil heart of unbelief.\" But even suppose there should be, let no man despair, but let him recover himself; for as long as we are in this world, the \"To-day\" is in season...<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 6</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But exhort one another.\" Observe the gentleness and mildness of the expression: he said not \"Rebuke,\" but \"Exhort.\" Thus we are required to bear ourselves towards those who are straightened by affliction. This he says also in writing to the Thessalonians, \"Warn them that are unruly\", but in speaking of the feeble-minded, not so, but what? \"Comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men\"; that is, do not cease to hope; do not despair. For he that does not encourage one who is straightened by affliction, makes him more hardened.</p><p>\"Lest any of you,\" he says, \"be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.\" He means either the deceit of the devil (for it is indeed a deceit, not to look for the things to come, to think that we are without responsibility, and that we shall not pay the penalty for our deeds here, neither will there be a resurrection); or in another sense insensibility or despairing is deceit. For to say, \"What is there left? I have sinned once for all, I have no hope of recovering myself,\" is deceit.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 6</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"But encourage one another.\" Build each other up, and spur one another on.<br/>\"As long as it is called 'today'.\" Until the end, he says; for until the end, today is called. For he said, \"Today, if you hear his voice,\" he says, until that which is spoken of as today.<br/>\"so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.\" So that it does not happen, he says, as it occurred with our ancestors, and that their hearts may become hard and unyielding, deceived by unbelief, which now calls sin.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: He introduces the present age as one day.<br/><i>— FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE Hebrews 3.13</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1dedd8ebd0440ca6fcb4af2cc0f584da899764572c99a1498037a66adb7ec97c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6644,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1263f00346d7a9f97d7384f0b722a198d47b41653b68864e9a47121d71233053","translator":null,"work":null}