{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-11","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"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>Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians</p><p>for the sake of the cross, which is a stumbling-block[123]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I</p><p>Moreover, they affirm that the Apostle Paul himself made mention of this cross in the following words: \"The doctrine of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.\"[53]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book V</p><p>from one who has never experienced rebellion? \"The cross of Christ,\" he says, \"is to them that perish foolishness; but unto such as shall obtain salvation, it is the power of God and the wisdom of God.\"[207]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book III</p><p>But it is probable that what is written by Paul in the first Epistle to the Corinthians,[150]</p><p>Excerpts of Theodotus</p><p>As, then, the magnet, repelling other matter, attracts iron alone by reason of affinity; so also books, though many read them, attract those alone who are capable of comprehending them. For the word of truth is to some \"foolishness,\"[48]</p><p>and to others a \"stumbling-block; \"[49]</p><p>but to a few \"wisdom.\"[50]</p>","source_html_sha256":"0d95d640cf963edd654ef67dc1e22de630e0c51bd21a3e260c41aaddf86141b9","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":11,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"7913d5602d0cafaf41193310b983c0259865f88050e5ebb3de8836eb18ac4bd1","translator":null,"work":null}