{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6767","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":28,"verse_to":28},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"So Christ was once offered.\" By whom offered? evidently by Himself. Here he says that He is not Priest only, but Victim also, and what is sacrificed. On this account are the words \"was offered.\" \"Was once offered\" (he says) \"to bear the sins of many.\" Why \"of many,\" and not \"of all\"? Because not all believed. For He died indeed for all, that is His part: for that death was a counterbalance against the destruction of all men. But He did not bear the sins of all men, because they were not willing.</p><p>And what is the meaning of \"He bare the sins\"? Just as in the Oblation we bear up our sins and say, \"Whether we have sinned voluntarily or involuntarily, do Thou forgive,\" that is, we make mention of them first, and then ask for their forgiveness. So also was it done here. Where has Christ done this? Hear Himself saying, \"And for their sakes I sanctify Myself.\" (John xvii. 19.) Lo! He bore the sins. He took them from men, and bore them to the Father; not that He might determine anything against them (mankind), but that He might forgive them.</p><p>\"Unto them that look for Him shall He appear\" (he says) \"the second time without sin unto salvation.\" What is \"without sin\"? it is as much as to say, He sinneth not. For neither did He die as owing the debt of death, nor yet because of sin. But how \"shall He appear\"? To punish, you say. He did not however say this, but what was cheering; \"shall He appear unto them that look for Him, without sin unto salvation.\" So that for the time to come they no longer need sacrifices to save themselves, but to do this by deeds.<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 17</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"so Christ.\" Since he was a man as well as being God, he himself, he says, endured the common lot of humanity. For just as men die once, so Christ, having been offered once, offered himself. For he is not only a high priest but also a victim.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"to bear the sins.\" Just as in the holy liturgy we bring up the sins and say: Whether unwillingly or willingly we have sinned, forgive us; that is, we first remember them, and then we ask for forgiveness; so He Himself said to the Father: For them I sanctify Myself (Jn. 17:19). Or, He bore the sins of men to the Father, so that He might forgive and erase them.<br/>And why did He say, \"of many,\" and not \"of all\"? Because not all have believed. For the sins of those who believe are taken away. For He died to save all, yet He forgives the sins only of the faithful. That is, \"to bear the sins of many,\" He says, so that He might also extinguish them, taking the punishment on their behalf.<br/>\"willappear a second time, not to deal with sin.\" Wherever he returns, he does not come to die again for your sins, nor that he will no longer free you from sins, as it now takes away; nor that he will not punish the guilty and those subject to sins, because he was crucified for us.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Or that He says He bore the sins of many on the cross, so that He might also blot them out, giving the penalty on their behalf. Now, having made Himself sin, the Father sent Him; for Christ was indeed very sinful, having taken upon Himself and assumed the sins of the whole world. But He gave the penalty due to sinners through the cross, which belonged to them, and henceforth He will come with the glory of the Father, no longer as a sinner, no longer reckoned among the lawless. For if Christ is sinful, listen: for He who knew no sin, it is said, made sin to be sin, as if sin itself. (2 Cor. 5:21)<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4fe4d229e6cbf7d559fa9e48e411e833a059da30535449c67dda73d92eeb5822","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6767,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"410f5d42e5fd04bb7edc5d0904661b948e15c7d34bec970665a6d332f9ac7ef0","translator":null,"work":null}