{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2601","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":48,"verse_to":48},"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>Ignatius of Antioch</b>: It is absurd to speak of Jesus Christ with the tongue, and to cherish in the mind a Judaism which has now come to an end. For where there is Christianity there cannot be Judaism. For Christ is one, in whom every nation that believes, and every tongue that confesses, is gathered unto God. And those that were of a stony heart have become the children of Abraham, the friend of God; and in his seed all those have been blessed who were ordained to eternal life in Christ.<br/><i>— Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And hearing this the Gentiles\" - this, while it was more cheering to them, seeing the case was this, that whereas those were of right to hear first, they themselves enjoy the blessing, was at the same time more stinging to those - \"and the Gentiles,\" it says, \"hearing this were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and believed, as many as were ordained unto eternal life\": i.e., set apart for God. Observe how he shows the speediness of the benefit.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 30</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"As many as were ordained unto eternal life\": this is also a proof, that their having received these Gentiles was agreeable with the mind of God. But \"ordained,\" not in regard of necessity: \"whom He foreknew,\" saith the Apostle, \"He did predestinate.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 30</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"5c686007792904c1b03b8b7a796d4516dd7c6041d057c041044e1950aac486a1","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2601,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"740d003a4c4fdbd9577b927782c92b564ccdcb14dcfe9e10aad5e4a1b6ab2185","translator":null,"work":null}