[Propertalk] 2 Epiphany - Jan. 17, 2010 - Sermon quotes - Part 1

[Joe Parrish]

John 2:3

...making water wine, He satisfied those who were reclining [at table], and gave drink to those who had been invited to the marriage; showing that the God who made the earth, and commanded it to bring forth fruit, who established the waters, and brought forth the fountains, was He who in these last times bestowed upon mankind, by His Son, the blessing of food and the favour of drink: the Incomprehensible [acting thus] by means of the comprehensible, and the Invisible by the visible; since there is none beyond Him, but He exists in the bosom of the Father.

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.iv.xii.html#_John_2_3_0_0

Irenaeus of Lyons,  c. 180 
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For He who made wine on that day at the marriage feast, in those six water-pots, which He commanded to be filled with water, the self-same does this every year in vines. For even as that which the servants put into the water-pots was turned into wine by the doing of the Lord, so in like manner also is what the clouds pour forth changed into wine by the doing of the same Lord. But we do not wonder at the latter, because it happens every year: it has lost its marvellousness by its constant recurrence. 

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf107.iii.ix.html

St. Augustine
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14. But whenever the need is felt, he does not at once hasten and bestow what is needed and desired, but delays and tests our faith and trust, even as he does here; yea, what is still more severe, he acts as though he would not help at all, but speaks with harshness and austerity. This you observe in the case of his mother.

http://www.lectionarycentral.com/epiphany2/Luthergospel.html

Martin Luther, c. 1522
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John 2:3
2:3 {2} And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith
    unto him, They have no wine.

 (2) Christ takes good enough care of our salvation, and
     therefore has no need of others to remind of it.

John 2:4
2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee?
    mine {b} hour is not yet come.

http://www.ccel.org/g/geneva/notes/John/2.html

Martin Luther, c. 1522
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Again, the Lord hath this also in view. He is making you fit for the best wine, that he may be glorified by the trial of your faith. 

http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0226.htm

Charles H. Spurgeon, 1858
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A saint was once dying, and another who sat by him said-"Farewell, brother, I shall never see you again in the land of the living." "Oh," said the dying man, "I shall see you again in the land of the living that is up yonder, where I am going; this is the land of the dying." Oh brethren and sisters, if we should never meet again in the land of the dying, have we a hope that we shall meet in the land of the living, and drink the last wine at last.


http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0225.htm

Charles H. Spurgeon, 1858
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4. Jesus saith to her, Woman - So our Lord speaks also, chap. xix, 26. It is probable this was the constant appellation which he used to her. He regarded his Father above all, not knowing even his mother after the flesh. What is it to me and thee? A mild reproof of her inordinate concern and untimely interposal. Mine hour is not yet come - The time of my working this miracle, or of my going away. May we not learn hence, if his mother was rebuked for attempting to direct him in the days of his flesh, how absurd it is to address her as if she had a right to command him, on the throne of his glory? Likewise how indecent it is for us to direct his supreme wisdom, as to the time or manner in which he shall appear for us in any of the exigencies of life!

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/wesley/notes.i.v.iii.html

John Wesley
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