{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-777","native_reference":{"book_number":620,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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>Epistle of Ignatius to Hero, a Deacon of Antioch</p><p>\"No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier; and if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.\"[11]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle LXV</p><p>For it is written: \"No man that warreth for God entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please Him to whom he has pledged himself.\"[3]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus</p><p>And again: \"No man that warreth for God binds himself to anxieties of this world, that he may be able to please Him to whom he hath approved himself. Moreover, also, if a man should contend, he will not be crowned unless he have fought lawfully.\"[60]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews</p><p>Concerning this same thing to Timothy: \"No man that warreth for God bindeth himself with worldly annoyances, that he may please Him to whom he hath approved himself. But and if a man should contend, he will not be crowned unless he fight lawfully.\"[446]</p>","source_html_sha256":"d8b8cc587581fcfdcdde3fc30253f233b4f83ec9147dd03ca5919d83cae3234c","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":777,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"bf9bad3f9c6bd50978c0b3a60509fd1367717f5a167065b31072a8d37c3bb956","translator":null,"work":null}