{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2406","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"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>: Let me say something about this; I am helped, you see, by their words, which have gone out to the ends of the whole wide world. Notice first of all his holy act of pouring himself out. He said he was being immolated, not that he was dying. It is not because one who is immolated doesn't die but that not everyone who dies is immolated. So being immolated he is dying for God. The word is taken from sacrifice. Everything that is sacrificed is slaughtered for God.<br/><i>— SERMONS 299.3</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Listen to the Apostle Paul acknowledging grace, and afterwards desiring the payment of a debt. What acknowledgment of grace is there in Paul? \"Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained,\" saith he, \"mercy.\" He said that he who obtained it was unworthy; that he had, however, obtained it, not through his own merits, but through the mercy of God. Listen to him now demanding the payment of a debt, who had first received unmerited grace: \"For,\" saith he, \"I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.\" Now he demands a debt, he exacts what is due. For consider the following words: \"Which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall render unto me in that day.\"<br/><i>— TRACTATES ON John 3.10</i></p><p><b>Clement of Rome</b>: But not to dwell upon ancient examples, let us come to the most recent spiritual heroes. Let us take the noble examples furnished in our own generation. Through envy and jealousy the greatest and most righteous pillars [of the church] have been persecuted and put to death. Let us set before our eyes the illustrious apostles... Owing to envy, Paul also obtained the reward of patient endurance, after being seven times thrown into captivity, compelled to flee, and stoned. After preaching both in the east and west, he gained the illustrious reputation due to his faith, having taught righteousness to the whole world, and come to the extreme limit of the west, and suffered martyrdom under the prefects. Thus was he removed from the world, and went into the holy place, having proved himself a striking example of patience.<br/><i>— Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 5</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.\".<br/>There now remains for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day; and not only to me, but to all also who love His appearing.\"<br/><i>— Epistle VIII</i></p><p><b>Eusebius of Caesarea</b>: He did not add next something like \"he will deliver me out of the mouth of the lion,\" for he saw in the spirit that his death was all but at hand. So he adds to his words, \"And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.\" He says: \"The Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom,\" indicating his speedy martyrdom, which he foretells even more clearly in the same writing, when he says, \"For I am even now ready to be sacrificed, and the time of my dissolution is at hand.\"<br/><i>— ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 2.22</i></p><p><b>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: Ye presbyters, \"feed the flock which is among you,\" till God shall show who is to hold the rule over you. For \"I am now ready to be offered,\" that I \"may win Christ.\" Let the deacons know of what dignity they are, and let them study to be blameless, that they may be the followers of Christ. Let the people be subject to the presbyters and the deacons. Let the virgins know to whom they have consecrated themselves.<br/><i>— Epistle of Pseudo-Ignatius to the Antiochians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For I am now ready to be poured out, and the time of my departure is at hand.\" He has not said of my sacrifice; but, what is much more, \"of my being poured out.\" For the whole of the sacrifice was not offered to God, but the whole of the drink-offering was.<br/><i>— Homily on 2 Timothy 9</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.</p><p>For I, Paul says, already offer myself as a sacrifice to Christ. And he did not say sacrifice, but a drink offering, indicating something greater and more sacred. For a part of the sacrifice alone was offered to God as incense. But the entire drink offering was dedicated to Him. And Paul himself commands his disciples to do this, saying: \"Present your members as a living sacrifice.\" (Rom. 12:1) For he who sacrifices for Christ performs a sacred service himself.</p><p>— [OECUMENIUS] The meaning of \"being am poured out\" is, as it were, that I break the war against all. Neither fighting nor being fought against, for I am perfected.</p><p>of my departure. For departure means death, either because of the departing from the earth from which we were taken; or towards the Creator Christ. [end of the excerpt by Oecumenius Π f.169r; A f.182v; B f. 220v; G f.309v—310r] —<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; there is laid up for me the crown which the Lord will give me on that day\" -doubtless of his suffering.<br/><i>— Scorpiace</i></p><p><b>Theodore of Mopsuestia</b>: Paul does not say libor but delibor, that is, enduring death in the confession of Christ as a libation of wine is poured out on behalf of honoring God.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 2 TIMOTHY</i></p><p><b>Theodoret of Cyrus</b>: Paul calls his destruction a libation, as if his blood were poured out for the sake of true religion.<br/><i>— INTERPRETATION OF THE SECOND LETTER TO TIMOTHY</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e45da3f39f5b93eaf9eb836bb1e13e1c7abf489963e6867bf0e290f41cb1aade","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2406,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c939e30970e417da11b26f71f9255d6b3f1174515ba3cd443c40c519b4d7cdc6","translator":null,"work":null}