{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-455","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":21,"verse_to":21},"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>Ambrosiaster</b>: To be under the law of Christ is to be under the law of God, because everything which is of Christ is of God.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: He did this by compassion, not by lying. For each one becomes like him whom he wants to help when such great mercy prevails as that each one would wish for himself if he were in the same misery. And so he becomes like the other—not by deceiving him but by putting himself in the other's place.<br/><i>— Against Lying 12</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"To them that are without law, as without law.\" These were neither Jews, nor Christians, nor Greeks; but \"outside of the Law,\" as was Cornelius, and if there were any others like him. For among these also making his appearance, he used to assume many of their ways. But some say that he hints at his discourse with the Athenians from the inscription on the altar, and that so he saith, \"to them that are without law, as without law.\"</p><p>Then, lest any should think that the matter was a change of mind, he added, \"not being without law to God, but under law to Christ;\" i.e., \"so far from being without law, I am not simply under the Law, but I have that law which is much more exalted than the older one, viz. that of the Spirit and of grace.\" Wherefore also he adds, \"to Christ.\" Then again, having made them confident of his judgment, he states also the gain of such condescension, saying, \"that I might gain them that are without law.\" And every where he brings forward the cause of his condescension, and stops not even here...<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 22</i></p><p><b>Theodore of Mopsuestia</b>: Paul states, somewhat surprisingly, that he is under the law of Christ, lest anyone think that he is under the law of Moses.<br/><i>— Pauline Commentary from the Greek Church</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"19d69f3b872f7b90b6f92727f5370b022fc4559089740d3dde41d1b82ca12e2a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":455,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"8c68c5fbed3633605fbfd5f836592ec39a519a86f8e4b4c92192a8e0a84ca787","translator":null,"work":null}