{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2005","native_reference":{"book_number":700,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>Bede</b>: May grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father be with you, etc. Since the heretics of that time, namely Marcian and Cerinthus, denied that our Lord Jesus Christ was truly the Son of God and attributed his beginning to human birth, John rightly recalls him as the Son of God the Father to refute these blasphemers. He also testifies that grace, mercy, and peace are to be given to the faithful by him just as by God the Father, to demonstrate that he is equal and co-eternal with the Father, signifying that his gifts are the same as those of the Father. As the Lord himself, speaking of his and the Father's consubstantiality, said: \"For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise\" (John V).<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Again, after these things, he adds: \"Grace and mercy will be with us:\" designating the goods that arise from perfect love.<br/>Speaking of God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, John adds, \"the Son of the Father:\" for only here is He properly the Father. Therefore, Paul also says, \"From whom,\" he says, \"every family in heaven and on earth is named.\"(Eph. 3:15)<br/>He further adds: \"in truth and love,\" bringing firmness to the discourse, and a certain indication of the love that he speaks of.<br/><i>— Commentary on 2 John</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2bebb24b2df4b6c34a864176439f4da8739ebbbfafc7b9e505a7b169c2d16281","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2005,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"90f90b733226845695a5d17fc2c0e429ac37498ab1a910ac7efabcfdc91b4f22","translator":null,"work":null}