{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3946","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":25,"chapter_to":25,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>: The role of holy women was different in the times of the prophets. Obedience, not concupiscence, impelled women to marry for the propagation of the people of God, among whom the forerunners of Christ were sent in advance. For this people, by the things that happened to them as a type, whether they recognized these types or not, were indeed prophetic of Christ, from whom Christ was to take flesh. Hence, in order that this race might be multiplied, the man who did not raise up seed in Israel was held accursed by sentence of the law. That is why holy women were animated by the pious desire of offspring rather than by desire. We may rightly believe that they would not have sought the marriage union if children could have been obtained in any other way.<br/><i>— ON THE GOOD OF WIDOWHOOD 6.10</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: But that the injury of spittings is taken as the extreme injury, is manifest also in the law, in which it is written that the wife of a deceased man, if the brother of her husband will not take her, going to him who refused to take her to himself as wife, in the presence of the elders shall unshoe \"one of his sandals from his feet and shall spit in his face and shall say: so shall it be done to the man who has not built up the house of his brother\". Therefore Christ did not turn away his face \"from the confusion of spittings\", that his countenance might be more glorified than the countenance of Moses was glorified, with so great and such glory that (by comparison with this glorification) the glorification of that countenance is done away, just as in the sight of the sun the light of a lamp is done away, and just as the knowledge which is in part is done away \"when that which is perfect has come\".<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Matthew 113</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"022ff400f64ca6c09fd6e143ea834ca2126c58af6107da65505c50294abf91db","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3946,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"64868a70f5f07a963bdebdd45c984716a0b11d413519a9db11b291254aea628e","translator":null,"work":null}