{"id":15598,"date":"2025-07-16T09:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15598"},"modified":"2025-07-10T19:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:47:35","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-july-16-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15598","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for July 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"53air\" data-offset-key=\"3ur9p-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3ur9p-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3ur9p-0-0\">\u201cJesus speaks here not only of those who show mercy by giving worldly goods but also of those who demonstrate mercy in their actions\u2026The reward at first glance appears to be an equal reimbursement, but actually the reward from God is much greater than human acts of goodness. For whereas we ourselves are showing mercy<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"53air\" data-offset-key=\"3v647-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"3v647-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3v647-0-0\">as human beings, we are obtaining mercy from the God of all. Human mercy and God\u2019s mercy are not the same thing.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"53air\" data-offset-key=\"9oied-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9oied-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9oied-0-0\">(St John Chrysostom, \u2018Homily on Matthew)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15599\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/d6k-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/d6k-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/d6k-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/d6k-1024x610.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/d6k.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJesus speaks here not only of those who show mercy by giving worldly goods but also of those who demonstrate mercy in their actions\u2026The reward at first glance appears to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15600,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15598\/revisions\/15600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}