{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4057","native_reference":{"book_number":250,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>Didymus the Blind</b>: Those who have come from paganism to the gospel—those who were slaves of desire, slaves of sin, slaves of the devil and of death—have become riders on horseback. About them it is said that, in the future, they will ride on divine words like on horses.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Ecclesiastes 299:24</i></p><p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: By the name 'horse' is understood temporal dignity, as Solomon witnesses, who says, \"I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth.\" For every one who sins is the servant of sin, and servants are upon horses, when sinners are elated with the dignities of the present life. But princes walk as servants, when no honour exalts many who are full of the dignity of virtues, but when the greatest misfortune here presses them down, as though unworthy. Hence it is said again; \"They have slumbered who mounted horses.\" That is, in the death of the soul, they, who trusted in the honour of the present life, have closed the eyes of their mind to the light of truth.<br/><i>— Morals on the Book of Job, Book 31, Section 43</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"ad462df5a9143ffc97109b068a4d32eeaea49401756e99b2775cf3da29bd9147","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4057,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0ff933e6f9d96a2c91ae3125b65d44339723108882dc3badd259dd553b294b54","translator":null,"work":null}