{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-452","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":17,"verse_to":17},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Surely it is better to merit a reward than to serve as a steward. Let us not be bound by the yoke of slavery, but let us serve in charity of spirit.<br/><i>— LETTER 47</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Up to now I am so far restored in that glory that I confess I am ignorant not only how near I come to it but even whether I shall come to it at all. It is true I am a dispenser of eternal salvation along with my other innumerable fellow servants. \"For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward.\" To be a dispenser of that salvation by word and sacrament is not at all the same as to be a partaker of it. Letter , To Audax.</p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: What then shall I do, to whom the dispensation of the word has been entrusted? Though I am an \"unprofitable servant,\" I have nevertheless received from the Lord \"the measure of wheat to be distributed to the Lord's household.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 10.1</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e5d27bc72f2bb0516dbef834fef20cf401197558eb58e6a8a2c3485079d65973","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":452,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"150b13ebb98a056b4ad08d7c64ec47610c4f935131943dc30cff7899a26effae","translator":null,"work":null}