Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

NPNF (V1-14)St. Chrysostom•St. Chrys. seems to refer to some place where it is said that God desired (•St. Chrys. understands this passage as meaning that peace was made between things on earthand those in Heaven, between us and the Angels. See his Homily on Col. i. 20•St. Chrys.’s exposition requires this literal translation of the participle. He gives two explanationsof it,•St. John.•Stablish you in every good word and work.•Suicer, Thes. Eccles•Tertull. De Pud•Tertullian De Pudicitia•That He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him.•That had come down from high•That is for the moment St. Paul does not argue the dignity of Christ from the title•That is from other arguments than the words of the Old Testament.•That is the Name Son•That is,•That is, Jacob obtained the blessing from Isaac, but did not himself receive the good thingsbestowed by the blessing. Therefore the good things to come were not those of this world. Thisis a reply to the second, the alternative, interpretation suggested.•That is, Remember them, because of the continual presence and working of Christ in His Church.•That is, besides the covenant being in itself a new one, different from the Mosaic, there is also,he says, the difference in the mode of giving it, the one being written, the other put into theheart. The Jew is supposed to allege that this second is the only difference, and that the promisein the Prophecy is that the Mosaic law shall be given into the heart, and that this was fulfilledby the reformation of the people: as for instance after the Captivity.•That is, he took care to provide against being understood to refer to His Divine Nature, whenhe said lowly things concerning Christ.•That is, lest the belief of His Godhead should undermine our belief in His true manhood.•That is, the Apostle repudiates the teaching of more than one baptism.•That is, the Macedonians or Pneumatomachi, who about the year 373 found great fault with St.Basil for using indifferently the two forms of doxology, sometimes•That is, these words are addressed to us as well as to them.•That is, what the substance of God is, is not a part of what we must believe in order to pleaseHim: nor can it be ascertained by reasonings.•That nothing be lost. Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with thefragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.•That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.•That ye may be the children of,•The•The Angels are called Winds, to express their rapid power of making things, how it reachesalmost to all things without time; and their motion in the manner of those who ferry over, from887