{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-1273","native_reference":{"book_number":550,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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 Idolatry</p><p>tests me! The cursing of well-maintained Discipline is a blessing of the Name. \"If,\" says he, \"I wished to please men, I should not be Christ's servant.\"[103]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle LIV</p><p>Nor ought the reproaches of the lost to move us in any degree to depart from the right path and from the sure rule, since also the apostle instructs us, saying, \"If I should please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.\"[34]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle LXI</p><p>But if some of the perverse persons refuse to obey, let us follow the same apostle, who says, \"If I please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.\"[15]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle LXII</p><p>And the apostle also speaks, saying, \"If I pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.\"[35]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise II On the Dress of Virgins</p><p>and that Paul also has gloriously and sublimely uttered, \"If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.\"[16]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews</p><p>Also in the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians: \"If I wished to please men, I should not be the servant of Christ.\"[646]</p>","source_html_sha256":"3bfee574711844b9f8310622ec1ef8ac7a082768035d6069a248a0b7897e81fc","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":1273,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"4c144ce4430664ebaa90cb7bd3bb6d4f0ca28a11216ff77b496f154a97339b56","translator":null,"work":null}