{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-2933","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":19,"chapter_to":19,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"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>Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth</p><p>For as it is disagreeable to walk among thistles with naked feet, so also it is hard for such to enter the kingdom of God.[37]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V</p><p>Again, \"Don't sail on land\" is a Pythagorean saw, and shows that taxes and similar contracts, being troublesome and fluctuating, ought to be declined. Wherefore also the Word says that the tax-gatherers shall be saved with difficulty.[71]</p><p>Tertullian To His Wife Book II</p><p>joys?-which, indeed, is chiefly found among the wealthier; for the more any is rich, and inflated with the name of \"matron,\" the more capacious house does she require for her burdens, as it were a field wherein ambition may run its course. To such the churches look paltry. A rich man is a difficult thing (to find) in the house of God;[56]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book VII</p><p>From what has been said, it is clear then that Jesus, \"the man of Nazareth,\" did not promulgate laws opposed to those just considered in regard to riches, when He said, \"It is hard for the rich man to enter into the kingdom of God; \"[40]</p><p>Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas</p><p>If we say that He affords us light, it is seen by us, and we have it; and if riches, they exist and appear in this world, and we name them, since it has been said, With difficulty will a rich man enter into the kingdom of the heavens.[25]</p>","source_html_sha256":"178274f0b46807431f71522d591805ac48113bc764eb1a611a362d80ee0e3804","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":2933,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"ba4068c69d16a6564075987b373a2cbb4c73105b3d33dbe80feb703b7a4f206c","translator":null,"work":null}