{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2408","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: While we await the fullness of time, the souls await their due reward. Some await punishment and others glory. And yet in the meantime the one group is not without harm nor the other without gain. For the former will be dismayed upon seeing that the reward of glory has been stored up for those who keep the law of God, that the chambers of those souls are being preserved by the angels, that shame and ruin will be the punishments of their negligence and rebellion, so that they may gaze on the glory of the Most High and blush to come into his sight, for they have profaned his commandments.<br/><i>— DEATH AS A GOOD 10.47</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: I have received the letter of your Reverence in which you urge on us the great good of loving and longing for the coming of our Savior. In this you act like the good servant of the master of the household who is eager for his lord's gain and who wishes to have many sharers in the love which burns so brightly and constantly in you. Examining, therefore, the passage you quoted from the apostle where he said that the Lord would render a crown of justice not only to him but to all who love his coming, we live as uprightly as he and we pass through this world as pilgrims while our heart constantly expands with this love, and whether he comes sooner or later than he is expected, his coming is loved with faithful charity and longed for with pious affection.<br/><i>— LETTERS 199.1.1</i></p><p><b>Cassiodorus</b>: The holy man demands judgment because he is certain of the Lord's mercy. As Paul has it: \"As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice, which the Lord, the just Judge, will render to me in that day.\" He walks in his innocence because … he puts his trust in the Lord. The presumption he shows is not in his own powers but in God's generosity.<br/><i>— EXPLANATION OF THE Psalms 25.1</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: These words I address to you as if alive, and with propriety. For ye hold already the crown of life and immortality which is laid up for you in heaven.<br/><i>— Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: The martyr's own struggles surpass our mortal nature. The prizes they won go beyond our powers and understanding. They laughed at the life lived on earth. They trampled underfoot the punishment of the rack. They scorned death and took wing to heaven. They escaped from the storms of temporal things and sailed into a calm harbor. They brought with them no gold or silver or expensive garments. They carried along no treasure which could be plundered but the riches of patience, courage and love. Now they belong to Paul's choral band while they still await their crowns, because they have escaped henceforth the uncertainty of the future.<br/><i>— DISCOURSES AGAINST JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS 6.1</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.\" Here again he calls virtue in general righteousness. Thou shouldest not grieve that I shall depart, to be invested with that crown which will by Christ be placed upon my head. But if I continued here, truly thou mightest rather grieve, and fear lest I should fail and perish. \"Which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but to all that love His appearing.\" Here also he raises his mind. If \"to all,\" much more to Timothy. But he did not say, \"and to thee,\" but \"to all\"; meaning, if to all, much more to him. But how, it may be asked, is one to \"love the appearing\" of Christ? By rejoicing at His coming; and he who rejoices at His coming, will perform works worthy of His joy; he will throw away his substance if need be, and even his life, so that he may obtain future blessings, that he may be thought worthy to behold that second coming in a fitting state, in confidence, in brightness and glory. This is to \"love His appearing.\" He who loves His appearing will do everything to ensure, before His general coming, a particular coming to himself. And how, you will say, is this possible? Hear from Christ, who says, \"If a man love Me, he will keep My words, and My Father and I will come unto him, and make Our abode with him.\" (John xiv. 23.)<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 9</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: From now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who love his appearance.</p><p>From now there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness. Then Paul also comforts Timothy from his sufferings. For who would grieve over one receiving a crown? And of righteousness, as if it were the universal virtue.</p><p>which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day. For do not tell me here about temporary things, for I seek those there. But see how the obligation demands it from him, through the phrase, \"will award to me,\" but he did not say, \"He will give\"; this is also indicated by, \"the righteous Judge.\"</p><p>not only to me. Here he also appointed Timothy, saying that he will repay you as well.</p><p>For if he gives a crown to all who love his appearance, much more to you. But who loves his appearance? Those who do good deeds and are rewarded by the good.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Be you, too, faithful unto death, and fight you, too, the good fight, whose crown the apostle feels so justly confident has been laid up for him.<br/><i>— De Corona</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: And if he had wished to have his children also restored, he might again have been called father; but he preferred to have them restored him \"in that day.\" Such joy as that-secure so entirely concerning the Lord-he deferred; meantime he endured a voluntary bereavement, that he might not live without some (exercise of) patience.<br/><i>— Of Patience</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: He calls the \"crown of righteousness\" that which has been prepared for the righteous, which is given by a just sentence. When? On that day. By whom? By the just judge. I have known him as just; I have known him as the judge. I trust in his judgment. I look for a sentence. In this way Paul offers consolation to all children of faith.<br/><i>— INTERPRETATION OF THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"fb8cfa09be26448a8e4388c785631731aa1185ed8f688fff0e718d92308c1117","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2408,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"40a5b1978b1d30ca1c3ae150684b5175c0bee7aa33f0d31bdbc9d60aa7ff5c68","translator":null,"work":null}