{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-7480","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":44,"chapter_to":44,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"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>Athanasius of Alexandria</b>: How could he fail to pity them in this also, seeing that they worship them that cannot see. In hearing, they pray to them that cannot hear. Born with life and reason, people, as they are, call gods things that do not move at all but do not even have life. Strangest of all, do they serve as their masters beings whom they themselves keep under their own power?<br/><i>— Against the Heathen 13:4</i></p><p><b>Irenaeus</b>: When, however, the Scripture terms them [gods] which are no gods, it does not, as I have already remarked, declare them as gods in every sense, but with a certain addition and signification, by which they are shown to be no gods at all. As with David: \"The gods of the heathen are idols of demons;\" and, \"Ye shall not follow other gods.\" For in that he says \"the gods of the heathen\"—but the heathen are ignorant of the true God—and calls them \"other gods,\" he bars their claim [to be looked upon] as gods at all. But as to what they are in their own person, he speaks concerning them; \"for they are,\" he says, \"the idols of demons.\" And Esaias: \"Let them be confounded, all who blaspheme God, and carve useless things; even I am witness, saith God.\" He removes them from [the category of] gods, but he makes use of the word alone, for this [purpose], that we may know of whom he speaks.<br/><i>— Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 6), Section 3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"77ed0ce60abffaf8a8fc48e325d85f023d0a454373338df2fc0d598e37060324","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":7480,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2f93fc046d5881d2c94bb7586ef12a5593274b8d410840135446ecfbeacc18aa","translator":null,"work":null}