{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4006","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"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>Origen of Alexandria</b>: It is clear then that since those who live according to the law reverence the One who made the heaven, they do not reverence the heaven as if God. Furthermore, none of those who serve the Mosaic law worship the angels in heaven. And in the same way that they do not worship the sun, moon, and stars and \"the world of heaven.\" They avoid worshiping heaven as such or the angels in it.<br/><i>— AGAINST CELSUS 5.6</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: It is quite likely that the enemy will want to induce us by every possible trick down to \"the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven.\" But we shall reply that the Word of God did not command us to do so. For in no way may we bow down to the creature in the presence of the Creator who sustains all and anticipates their prayer. Not even the sun would wish that any friend of God or anyone else, it would seem, should bow down to it. It imitates him who says, \"Why do you call me good? None is good but one, that is God\" the Father.<br/><i>— EXHORTATION TO MARTYRDOM 7</i></p><p><b>Philo of Alexandria</b>: Some have supposed that the sun and moon and the other stars were gods with absolute powers and ascribed to them the causation of all events. But Moses held that the universe was created and is in a sense the greatest of commonwealths, having magistrates and subjects. For magistrates, all the heavenly bodies fixed and wandering. For subjects, such beings as exist below the moon, in the air or on the earth. These magistrates, however, in his view do not have unconditional powers but are lieutenants of the one Father of all. And it is by mimicking the example of his governance exercised according to law and justice over all created beings that they acquit themselves aright... So all the gods which the senses know in the heavens must not be supposed to possess absolute power but to have received the rank of subordinate rulers, naturally liable to correction... let us proceed to give honor to the immaterial, invisible, understood by the intellect alone, who is not only the God of gods, whether perceived by sense or by mind, but also the maker of all.<br/><i>— Special Laws, 1.3</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Lest that, looking to the heavens and seeing the sun and the moon and the stars and all the adornment of heaven, you err, worshiping and worshiping those things that the Lord your God distributed to all the people under heaven. The text does not say that God has commanded that these things be venerated by Gentiles, and that only his people should not worship them. The text says that God has foreseen that the Gentiles would worship these things from heaven and, despite foreseeing, created them, and also thought that their people would not worship them, or that the word distributed is said in the sense in which it is affirmed in Genesis that the stars will remain as signs for the times and for the days and for the years, (Genesis 1,14) an idea that the people of God have in common with all the people, but not the cult that other peoples have given them (Cf Hb 11,25).<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 6 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d9a5fe63d065ed142766a90f8244f7a913b8b9faba196e4f64834909a0a84a5e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4006,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6732b4cc042e8c180628c881e1c6cbbf0bc36cb076e45a0bc0720bc84e3c93f0","translator":null,"work":null}