{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3266","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":24,"verse_to":24},"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>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III</p><p>naming indeed Caesar as Caesar, but confessing God as God. In like manner also, that [text] which says, \"Ye cannot serve two masters,\"[58]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III</p><p>Quae cum ita se habeant, vitii erat depulsio atque expurgatio, in medium apostolorum circumactio uxoris, cujus dicebatur laborare zelotypia: et continentia a voluptatibus, quae magno studio parari solent, docebat illud, \"abuti carne,\" hoc est, exercere carnem. Neque enim, ut existimo, volebant, convenienter Domini praecepto, \"duobus dominis servire,\"[18]</p><p>pronuntiavit eum, qui est obtemperaturus, \"serviturum duobus dominis: \"[140]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII</p><p>How, then, can what relates to meat, and drink, and amorous pleasure, be agreeable to such an one? since he views with suspicion even a word that produces pleasure, and a pleasant movement and act of the mind. \"For no one can serve two masters, God and Mammon,\"[106]</p><p>Tertullian On Idolatry</p><p>\"But I was under contract.\" \"None can serve two lords.\"[84]</p><p>Tertullian De Spectaculis</p><p>How many other undoubted proofs we have had in the case of persons who, by keeping company with the devil in the shows, have fallen from the Lord! For no one can serve two masters.[25]</p><p>Tertullian De Corona</p><p>So you see idolatry is not without its gain, selling, as it does, Christ for pieces of gold, as Judas did for pieces of silver. Will it be \"Ye cannot serve God and mammon\"[45]</p><p>Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul</p><p>,\"[115]</p><p>Tertullian To His Wife Book II</p><p>how much more fellowship of life, and indivisible intimacy! Any and every believing woman must of necessity obey God. And how can she serve two lords[32]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book VIII</p><p>Before proceeding to the next point, it may be well for us to see whether we do not accept with approval the saying, \"No man can serve two masters,\" with the addition, \"for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other,\" and further, \"Ye cannot serve God and mammon.\"[3]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise III On the Lapsed</p><p>He says that he has done what another has actually committed; and although it is written, \"Ye cannot serve two masters,\"[57]</p><p>Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle</p><p>and again, \"Ye cannot serve God and mammon.\"[45]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII</p><p>The Lord Jesus also said justly: \"No one can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.\"[5]</p><p>Thou shalt not speak obscenely, nor use wanton glances, nor be a drunkard; for from such causes arise whoredoms and adulteries. Be not a lover of money, lest thou \"serve mammon instead of God.\"[64]</p><p>The Ecclesiastical Canons of the Holy Apostles</p><p>Either therefore let him agree not to do so, or let him be deprived. For, \"no one can serve two masters,\"[53]</p><p>2 Clement</p><p>Now the Lord declares, \"No servant can serve two masters.\"[44]</p><p>Recognitions of Clement V</p><p>Wherefore also the true Prophet, when He was present with us, and saw some rich men negligent with respect to the worship of God, thus unfolded the truth of this matter: `No one, 'said He, `can serve two masters; ye cannot serve God and mammon; `[5]</p><p>Now the Lord declares, \"No servant can serve two masters.\"[33]</p>","source_html_sha256":"8c6d699f515a5f8a4543d4e23b116fc17b3aa20a9f307b6e55b74321778fd1b1","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3266,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"ae1e765117ab8a5049036c8d9873a3d46d6e339fc9821b61139e61c0b0c31403","translator":null,"work":null}