{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3365","native_reference":{"book_number":480,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"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>","source_html_sha256":"e5a7efcdc2c4a3740acc5eb77b41342ce4fe7b5cd3d5a5747f35f7ee521416b4","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3365,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"fe4b60f0c30ed336d03bd915123c7ce8d74b24abd25a85057c7d166b51b8155c","translator":null,"work":null}