{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3965","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":30,"chapter_to":30,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"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>Clement of Alexandria</b>: \"Anyone who tries to act high-handedly annoys God,\" says Scripture. For bombast is a spiritual vice. Scripture tells us to repent from it as from the other vices by turning from disharmony and by linking ourselves to a change for the better through the three instruments of mouth, heart and hands.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 2</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: But consider if perhaps all people participate in him insofar as he is Word. This is why the apostle teaches us that he is sought within the seekers by those who choose to find him. He says, \"Do not say in your heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven?' that is, to bring Christ down; or, 'Who shall descend into the deep?' that is, to bring Christ up again from the dead. But what does the Scripture say? The Word is near you, even in your mouth, and in your heart.\" This is as though Christ and the Word which is sought are the same.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF John 1.269</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: But what does Scripture say? The Word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart. And to these the Savior also kindly points out the matters pertaining to the kingdom of God, that they may not seek it outside themselves or say, \"Behold here or behold there.\" For he says to them, \"The kingdom of God is within you.\"<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF John 19.77</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: The \"kingdom of God,\" according to the word of our Lord and Savior, \"comes not with observation\"; and \"neither shall they say: Behold here, or behold there\"—but \"the kingdom of God is within us\" (for \"the Word is very nigh unto\" us, \"in our mouth and in our heart\"). So it is clear that he who prays for the coming of the kingdom of God rightly prays that the kingdom of God might be established and bear fruit and be perfected in himself.<br/><i>— ON PRAYER 25.1</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d355a9989da9b6ac743ff17adadbd87086cff1c5b3a86aa120d39cbe660935cb","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3965,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2ecdfdb74be4d35defa04cf91a4acecbbeca76c1b4e42c5a605e1d07b7f1d56b","translator":null,"work":null}