{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7636","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":52,"chapter_to":52,"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Let us all flee to Christ. Against sin let us appeal to God, the giver of freedom. Let us request to have ourselves put up for sale that we may be redeemed by his blood. For the Lord says, \"You were sold for nothing, and without money you shall be redeemed.\" That is, without payment, without your payment, because by mine. The Lord says this, for he gave the payment himself, not silver but his own blood. For we had remained both slaves and in need.<br/><i>— TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF John 41:4.3</i></p><p><b>Basil of Caesarea</b>: No one is sufficient to redeem himself, unless he comes who turns away the captivity of the people, not with ransoms or with gifts, as it is written in Isaiah, but in his own blood.<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON THE Psalms 19:4 (Psalms 48)</i></p><p><b>Jerome</b>: But those who want to believe will be redeemed, not with silver and money, but with the precious blood of Christ, so that they may hear through the apostles: Grace to you and peace (Romans 1:7). For we are reconciled to God, not by merits, but by grace and faith in Christ. It is also said of the soul, which, defiled by the filth of vices, had lost the brightness of its former conduct, that it shakes off the dust with the Apostles, who clung to His feet (Matthew 10). For it could not be that the soul, which had submitted its neck to those passing by and had mingled with the earth, saying, 'My soul is humbled even to the dust, my belly has adhered to the earth' (Psalms 43:25), should receive the likeness of the earth.<br/><i>— Commentary on Isaiah</i></p><p><b>John Cassian</b>: For without a doubt he will not deserve to be adorned with the garment of incorruption (concerning which the apostle commanded, \"Put on the Lord Jesus Christ\"; and again: \"Clothed in the breastplate of righteousness and love\";11 and about which the Lord himself said to Jerusalem through the prophet: \"Rise up, rise up, Jerusalem, put on the garments of your glory\") who has been overcome by slumbering idleness and boredom and who has chosen to be clothed not by the effort of his own toil but in the rags of laziness, which he has cut off from the complete fullness of the Scriptures and from their body and which he refits into a disgraceful covering to hide his slothfulness rather than into a garment of glory and beauty.<br/><i>— INSTITUTES 10:21.2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d1a8580b251c5b3c6e7ac4b35cae10b58f9e531dfd491638c2f0d0ac9130c36d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7636,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"36a9beed69148994e9308fea49645a048e3195f776c792560f0f8d4c21a89a2b","translator":null,"work":null}