{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2398","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"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>: It may happen that even with the assistance of holy men, or even if the holy angels themselves take part, no one rightly learns those things which pertain to life with God unless he is made by God docile to God.… Medicines for the body which are administered to men by men do not help unless health is conferred by God, who can cure them without medicines. Yet they are nevertheless applied even though they are useless without his aid. And if they are applied courteously, they are considered to be among works of mercy or kindness. In the same way, the benefits of teaching profit the mind when they are applied by men where assistance is granted by God, who could have given the gospel to man even though it came not from men nor through a man.<br/><i>— ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE 4.16.33</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: Read the divine Scriptures constantly. Never, indeed, let the sacred volume be out of your hand. Learn what you have to teach.… Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may mentally reply, \"Why do you not practice what you preach?\" He is a fine and dainty master who, with his stomach full, reads us a homily on fasting. Let the robber accuse others of covetousness if he will. The mind and mouth of a priest of Christ should be at one.<br/><i>— LETTERS 52.7</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But continue thou in the things that thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through the faith which in Christ Jesus.\" What is this? As the prophet David exhorted, saying, \"Be not thou envious against the workers of iniquity\" (Ps. xxxvii. 1), so Paul exhorts, \"Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned,\" and not simply learned, but \"hast been assured of,\" that is, hast believed. And what have I believed? That this is the Life. And if thou seest things happening contrary to thy belief, be not troubled. The same happened to Abraham, yet he was not affected at it. He had heard, \"In Isaac shall thy seed be called\" (Gen. xxi. 12); and he was commanded to sacrifice Isaac, yet he was not troubled nor dismayed. Let no one be offended because of the wicked. This the Scripture taught from the beginning. \"Knowing that from a child thou hast known the sacred writings.\" The holy Scriptures he calls \"sacred writings.\" In these thou wast nurtured, so that through them thy faith ought to be firm and unshaken. For the root was laid deep, and nourished by length of time, nor will anything subvert it. And speaking of the holy Scriptures, he has added, \"Which are able to make thee wise,\" that is, they will not suffer thee to have any foolish feeling, such as most men have. For he who knows the Scriptures as he ought, is not offended at anything that happens; he endures all things manfully, referring them partly to faith, and to the incomprehensible nature of the divine dispensation, and partly knowing reasons for them, and finding examples in the Scriptures. Since it is a great sign of knowledge not to be curious about everything, nor to wish to know all things. \"Which are able,\" he says, \"to make thee wise unto salvation.\" For the Scriptures suggest to us what is to be done, and what is not to be done.<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 8</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: But you remain in the things you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.</p><p>But you remain in the things you have learned. Likewise said David, Do not envy the wicked, nor desire to be with those who do evil. (Ps. 24:1)</p><p>you have learned, Paul says, that is, you learned with certainty.</p><p>knowing from whom you have learned them. Paul states two reasons why he must remain committed. And because you have not learned from just any common person, but from Paul; and because a deep root has been placed in you by the Scriptures, having been written a long time ago. However, he calls the Sacred Letters Scripture because they are inspired by God.</p><p>which are able to make you wise for salvation. He will not allow you to suffer anything foolish, like most do. For the one who knows the Scriptures, as one ought to know them, would never be put to shame.</p><p>for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. But it makes you wise, not according to the external wisdom that is in words and deceit, but to salvation through the faith in Christ. For the holy Scriptures, and the wisdom from them, lead to the faith of Christ.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"52ecfddbbe4a1b90d9a6556e14a7fc13c08e5c910228eabb8a9817197ade2989","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2398,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"52e5c00b10fd1c3b9fe5cf4d721819ca4a5dd40d55724ff86d12040752263db0","translator":null,"work":null}