{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5440","native_reference":{"book_number":550,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"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>: \"For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.\"</p><p>Observe the Apostle's discernment; his opponents endeavored to show, that he who kept not the Law was a transgressor, but he retorts the argument upon them, and shows that he who did keep the Law was a transgressor, not merely of faith, but of the Law itself. \"I build up again the things which I destroyed,\" that is, the Law; he means as follows: the Law has confessedly ceased, and we have abandoned it, and betaken ourselves to the salvation which comes of faith. But if we make a point of setting it up again, we become by that very act transgressors, striving to keep what God has annulled. Next he shows how it has been annulled.<br/><i>— Homily on Galatians 2</i></p><p><b>John Damascene</b>: When they say that he who does not keep the law is a transgressor, he says the exact opposite, calling a transgressor the person who keeps the law. It is like saying: The law has ceased, as we confessed, and so, having abandoned it, we have taken refuge with the salvation which is from faith. If, then, we contest about the application of the law, we become transgressor of the same, inasmuch as we contest about keeping what has been dissolved by God.</p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: We have nullified the law by allowing it, and have run to Christ. If then we seek to establish it again, we make ourselves transgressors in that we attempt to set up again what was dissolved by us. But observe his sense: those men thought themselves transgressors because they did not keep the law; he shows that they are transgressors because they hold to it.</p><p>\"I consider myself a transgressor.\" For by once more obeying the law, I show that as a transgressor I first permitted myself, and I believed in Christ.<br/><i>— Commentary on Galatians</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Justly, therefore, did he refuse to \"build up again (the structure of the law) which he had overthrown.\" The law, indeed, had to be overthrown, from the moment when John \"cried in the wilderness, Prepare ye the ways of the Lord,\" that valleys and hills and mountains may be filled up and levelled, and the crooked and the rough ways be made straight and smooth -in other words, that the difficulties of the law might be changed into the facilities of the gospel.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book V</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: How should (the Church) fear to suffer a fraudulent loss of him whom she had already lost on his ereption, and whom, after condemnation, she could not have held? Lastly, to what will it be becoming for a judge to grant indulgence? to that which by a formal pronouncement he has decisively settled, or to that which by an interlocutory sentence he has left in suspense? And, of course, (I am speaking of) that judge who is not wont \"to rebuild those things which he has destroyed, lest he be held a transgressor.\"<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"654ee145b8c9704003cf6e899cd0aaa6f19bb8f848bf3b7304b4af296fda802d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5440,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"5dc7731b1ee092fd1932088d28df57ed71f1ba0732079aa584268e34a81d0a27","translator":null,"work":null}