{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-184","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":14,"chapter_to":14,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>Ambrosiaster</b>: The confirmation of the prayer comes about when people say \"Amen\" to it. The words spoken are confirmed in the minds of the hearers by the confession of truth.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: This teacher declares that the restitution of all things will take place, when all these, mixing into one letter, shall utter one and the same sound. He imagines that the emblem of this utterance is found in Amen, which we pronounce in concert. The diverse sounds (he adds) are those which give form to that Aeon who is without material substance and unbegotten, and these, again, are the forms which the Lord has called angels, who continually behold the face of the Father.<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book I</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Else,\" saith he, \"if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?\"</p><p>\"For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.\"</p><p>Observe how again here he brings his stone to the plumb-line every where seeking the edification of the Church. Now by the \"unlearned\" he means the laymen, and signifies that he also suffers no little loss when he is unable to say the Amen. And what he saith is this: \"if thou shalt bless in a barbarian tongue, not knowing what thou sayest, nor able to interpret, the layman cannot respond the Amen. For not hearing the words, 'forever and ever,' which are at the end, he doth not say the Amen.\" Then again, comforting him concerning this, that he might not seem to hold the gift too cheap; the same kind of remark as he made above, that \"he speaketh mysteries,\" and \"speaketh unto God,\" and \"edifieth himself,\" and \"prayeth with the spirit,\" intending no little comfort from these things, this also he utters here, saying, \"for thou indeed givest thanks well,\" since thou speakest being moved by the Spirit: but the other hearing nothing nor knowing what is said, stands there, receiving no great advantage by it.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 35</i></p><p><b>Pelagius</b>: Paul is thinking here of laypeople, who do not hold office in the church.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6053fe0ae239fc0f15798adf9e17fa970cae110586f13c0af26c5f902d0d867f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":184,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e79d7994007e320285c0c7d1a9d4347ca7792e38782238ded56b91512ba54128","translator":null,"work":null}