{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-2316","native_reference":{"book_number":490,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":52,"verse_to":52},"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>Tertullian On Modesty</p><p>I blush not at an error which I have ceased to hold, because I am delighted at having ceased to hold it, because I recognise myself to be better and more modest. No one blushes at his own improvement. Even in Christ, knowledge had its stages of growth;[10]</p><p>Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII</p><p>ut to the spermatic principles, that one is short and little, another great, and another of middle height; but in the case of souls, it is our free-will, and actions of such a kind, and habits of such a kind, that furnish the reason why one is great, or little, or of middle height; and it is of our free-will either by advancing in stature to increase our size, or not advancing to be short. And so indeed I understand the words about Jesus having assumed a human soul, \"Jesus advanced; \"[152]</p>","source_html_sha256":"030d4b6774bda4205cf84a99c65891b3a83772810110cf605c771765fcd31ab5","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":2316,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"24a85de28d2851ee8c93d439153b4f30680697a94724d1c1a2ca2e839ea894dc","translator":null,"work":null}