{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-477","native_reference":{"book_number":690,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"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>: \"He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.\" How, brethren, what doth he advise us? \"He that saith he abideth in Him,\" that is, in Christ, \"ought himself also so to walk even as He walked.\" Haply the advice is this, that we should walk on the sea? That be far from us! It is this then, that we walk in the way of righteousness. In what way? I have already mentioned it. He was fixed upon the cross, and yet was He walking in this very way: this way is the way of charity, \"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.\" If, therefore, thou have learned to pray for thine enemy, thou walkest in the way of the Lord.<br/><i>— Ten Homilies on 1 John 1</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Let us follow Christ's footsteps with the entire effort of our minds. And so that we may deserve to come to the gate of his heavenly kingdom, let us seriously consider entering it by that course of action by which he proceeded when he was spending his life on earth.<br/><i>— Homilies on the Gospels 2.11</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: For you ought to know and to believe, and hold it for certain, that the day of affliction has begun to hang over our heads, and the end of the world and the time of Antichrist to draw near, so that we must all stand prepared for the battle; nor consider anything but the glory of life eternal, and the crown of the confession of the Lord; and not regard those things which are coming as being such as were those which have passed away. A severer and a fiercer fight is now threatening, for which the soldiers of Christ ought to prepare themselves with uncorrupted faith and robust courage, considering that they drink the cup of Christ's blood daily, for the reason that they themselves also may be able to shed their blood for Christ. For this is to wish to be found with Christ, to imitate that which Christ both taught and did, according to the Apostle John, who said, \"He that saith he abideth in Christ, ought himself also so to walk even as He walked.\" Moreover, the blessed Apostle Paul exhorts and teaches, saying, \"We are God's children; but if children, then heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.\"<br/><i>— Epistle LV</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: But there are some rich women, and wealthy in the fertility of means, who prefer their own wealth, and contend that they ought to use these blessings. Let them know first of all that she is rich who is rich in God; that she is wealthy who is wealthy in Christ; that those are blessings which are spiritual, divine, heavenly, which lead us to God, which abide with us in perpetual possession with God. But whatever things are earthly, and have been received in this world, and will remain here with the world, ought so to be contemned even as the world itself is contemned, whose pomps and delights we have already renounced when by a blessed passage we came to God, John stimulates and exhorts us, witnessing with a spiritual and heavenly voice. \"Love not the world,\" says he, \"neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, is lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not from the Father, but is of the lust of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever, even as God also abideth for ever.\" Therefore eternal and divine things are to be followed, and all things must be done after the will of God, that we may follow the divine footsteps and teachings of our Lord, who warned us, and said, \"I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me.\" But if the servant is not greater than his lord, and he that is freed owes obedience to his deliverer, we who desire to be Christians ought to imitate what Christ said and did. It is written, and it is read and heard, and is celebrated for our example by the Church's mouth, \"He that saith he abideth in Christ. ought himself also so to walk even as He walked.\" Therefore we must walk with equal steps; we must strive with emulous walk. Then the following of truth answers to the faith of our name, and a reward is given to the believer, if what is believed is also done.<br/><i>— Treatise II. On the Dress of Virgins.</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: But if we also, beloved brethren, are in Christ; if we put Him on, if He is the way of our salvation, who follow Christ in the footsteps of salvation, let us walk by the example of Christ, as the Apostle John instructs us, saying, \"He who saith he abideth in Christ, ought himself also to walk even as He walked.\" Peter also, upon whom by the Lord's condescension the Church was founded, lays it down in his epistle, and says, \"Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps, who did no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth; who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, threatened not, but gave Himself up to him that judged Him unjustly.\"<br/><i>— Treatise IX. On the Advantage of Patience.</i></p><p><b>Hilary of Arles</b>: There are three ways that we dwell in God—by faith, by hope and by love. God dwells in us by patience and humility.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 JOHN</i></p><p><b>Leo the Great</b>: In Him therefore we find our Model of patience, in Whom we have our Hope of life eternal; for \"if we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him,\" since, as the Apostle says, \"he that saith he abideth in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked.\" Otherwise we make a vain presence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.<br/><i>— SERMONS 90.2</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.\"<br/>However, since it happens that someone may convey precepts rightly and precisely, while their own affections are sluggish: this is far from God. Therefore, it is said that one who abides in God should also direct the paths of their own life according to Him.<br/><i>— Commentary on 1 John</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: When, however, he turns their minds back to continence, (\"But I will you all so to be,\") \"I think, moreover,\" he says, \"I too have the Spirit of God; \"in order that, if he had granted any indulgence out of necessity, that, by the Holy Spirit's authority, he might recall. But John, too, when advising us that \"we ought so to walk as the Lord withal did,\" of course admonished us to walk as well in accordance with sanctity of the flesh (as in accordance with His example in other respects).<br/><i>— On Monogamy</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"6722dcf1ade3b844e60c5119e94a6e59fe395ed09a742d57237333f6b7dd0753","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":477,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"813480f9b843b82f5e326adca78ee9285ad6934fd74a89b217cdc1bcaaa8a32a","translator":null,"work":null}