{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6531","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>Alexander of Alexandria</b>: For even though one saying may refer to the Father Himself, yet it would now be more aptly spoken of the Word, because when He became man, He changed not; but, as says the apostle, \"Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and for ever.\" Who hath induced them to say, that for our sakes He was made; although Paul says, \"for whom are all things, and by whom are all things?\"<br/><i>— Epistles on the Arian Heresy - Epistle Catholic</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: Through the promised inheritance, which they did not receive, it became evident that \"they looked forward to the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For they looked\" (he says) \"for the city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.\" Seest thou that they received them in this sense, in their already accepting them and being confident respecting them. If then to be confident is to receive, it is in your power also to receive. For these, although they enjoyed not those blessings, yet still saw them by their longing desire. Why now do these things happen? That we might be put to shame, in that they indeed, when things on earth were promised them, regarded them not, but sought the future \"city\": whereas God again and again speaks to us of the city which is above, and yet we seek that which is here. He said to them, I will give you the things of the present world. But when He saw, or rather, when they showed themselves worthy of greater things, then He no longer suffers them to receive these, but those greater ones; wishing to show us that they are worthy of greater things, being unwilling to be bound to these. As if one should promise playthings to an intelligent child, not that he might receive them, but by way of exhibiting his philosophy, when he asks for things more important. For this is to show, that they held off from the land with so great earnestness, that they did not even accept what was given. Wherefore their posterity receive it on this account, for themselves were worthy of the land.</p><p>What is, \"the city which hath foundations\"? For are not these which are visible \"foundations\"? In comparison of the other, they are not.</p><p>\"Whose Builder and Maker is God.\" O What an encomium on that city!<br/><i>— Homily on Hebrews 23</i></p><p><b>Methodius of Olympus</b>: And the Jews declared that the shadow of the image (of the heavenly things which was afforded to them), was the third from the reality; but we clearly behold the image of the heavenly order; for the truth will be accurately made manifest after the resurrection, when we shall see the heavenly tabernacle (the city in heaven \"whose builder and maker is God\"<br/><i>— Methodius Discourse V. Thallousa</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"For he waited.\" And by what word, he says, did these not weaken in faith, as if dwelling in a foreign land concerning the promised land? For, he says, they were not concerned with the earth, but indeed having received the land of promise, they sought the greater things and were expecting the heavenly city. For if they had been attached to the earth, they would have been shaken by not receiving it. Thus, he says, we also ought to seek the things above, and not have a word about those here.<br/>\"the city which has foundations.\" This is said because of its permanence and certainty, meaning it has foundations, or that it alone has foundations. For those on earth, in comparison to it, do not have foundations.<br/>\"whose builder and maker is God.\" The greatest praise of the one in heaven.<br/><i>— The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: And while he thought that He was carrying him to the land of Canaan, God promised to shew him another land of life which is in heaven, even as Paul also testifieth, \"He waited for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.\" And for this reason God teacheth us clearly that it was not that material land of promise which God promised to shew to Abraham. After He had brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees He made him dwell in Harran, and He did not carry him to the land of Canaan immediately after his coming forth. And again, that Abraham might not think that he heard the report of a reward, and therefore go forth after the voice of God, He did not make known to him at the beginning the name of the country to which He would bring him.<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 4 -- On Faith: First Discourse on Simplicity</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"917d2707a824cfa41f554ff83d66d794b992371c8d4017988dcf4337bafefb4a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6531,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6b0677266011f8a503b68b9dbf70043c49cfe21fd89114bc49533292fb506a82","translator":null,"work":null}