{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-62","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>Irenaeus</b>: Still further did He also make it manifest, that we ought, after our calling, to be also adorned with works of righteousness, so that the Spirit of God may rest upon us; for this is the wedding garment, of which also the apostle speaks, \"Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up by immortality.\" But those who have indeed been called to God's supper, yet have not received the Holy Spirit, because of their wicked conduct \"shall be,\" He declares, \"cast into outer darkness.\" He thus clearly shows that the very same King who gathered from all quarters the faithful to the marriage of His Son, and who grants them the incorruptible banquet, [also] orders that man to be cast into outer darkness who has not on a wedding garment, that is, one who despises it. For as in the former covenant, \"with many of them was He not well pleased;\" so also is it the case here, that \"many are called, but few chosen.\" It is not, then, one God who judges, and another Father who calls us together to salvation; nor one, forsooth, who confers eternal light, but another who orders those who have not on the wedding garment to be sent into outer darkness. But it is one and the same God, the Father of our Lord, from whom also the prophets had their mission, who does indeed, through His infinite kindness, call the unworthy; but He examines those who are called, [to ascertain] if they have on the garment fit and proper for the marriage of His Son, because nothing unbecoming or evil pleases Him.<br/><i>— Against Heresies Book IV</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For they were overthrown,\" saith he, \"in the wilderness.\" Declaring by this word both the sweeping destruction, and the punishments and the vengeance inflicted by God, and that they did not so much as attain to the rewards proposed to them. Neither were they in the land of promise when He did these things unto them, but without and afar somewhere, and wide of that country; He thus visiting them with a double vengeance, both by not permitting them to see the land, and this too though promised unto them, and also by actual severe punishment.</p><p>And what are these things to us? say you. To thee surely they belong. Wherefore also he adds, \"Now these things were figures of us.\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 23</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Paul wants to remind us that we are not saved merely because we happen to have been the recipients of God's free grace. We have to demonstrate that we are willing recipients of that free gift. The children of Israel received it, but they proved to be unworthy of it, and so they were not saved.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 4.45.2-5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c6c9c9912dc79d328cd76ead06cee18057cd2dc330de5f54908a396757eefa0b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":62,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0bfd816b5f90b86a26f6c9907183500d66535169af6b068157465a66743c8447","translator":null,"work":null}