ACC ~ Revelation 3 v7d

THE POWER OF SPEAKING AND OF UNDERSTANDING. GREGORY THAUMATURGUS: These things, moreover, as I judge, he gives forth only and truly by participation in the divine Spirit. There is need of the same power for those who prophesy and for those who hear the prophets. No one can rightly hear a prophet unless the same Spirit who prophesies bestows on him the capacity of grasping his words. And this principle is expressed indeed in the holy Scriptures themselves when it is said that only he who shuts opens, and no other one whatever; and what is shut is opened when that word of inspiration explains mysteries. ORATION AND PANEGYRIC ADDRESSED TO ORIGEN 15.

CHRIST CLOSES THE DOOR OF LIFE TO HYPOCRITES. TYCONIUS: “Who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens.” It is evident that Christ opens [the door] to those who knock, but to hypocrites who knock and say, “Lord, Lord open to us,” he closes the door of life and says to them, “I do not know from where you come; I never knew you, you evildoers.” COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 3.7.

CHRIST ALONE OPENS THE SECRETS OF THE LAW. PRIMASIUS: The secrets of the divine law are disclosed to the faithful by the power of Christ alone, and they are closed to the unbelievers. However, when he loosens, no one shuts, and when he binds, no one loosens. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 3.7.

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