{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-2297","native_reference":{"book_number":490,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":22,"verse_to":22},"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>And still further does Luke say in reference to the Lord: \"When the days of purification were accomplished, they brought Him up to Jerusalem, to present Him before the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord, That every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord; and that they should offer a sacrifice, as it is said in the law of the Lord, a pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons: \"[113]</p><p>Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ</p><p>Spare also the babe from circumcision, that he may escape the pain thereof; nor let him be brought into the temple, lest he burden his parents with the expense of the offering;[21]</p><p>Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna</p><p>Hence it was that the ark of God removed from the inn at Bethlehem, for there He paid to the law that debt of the forty days, due not to justice but to grace, and rested upon the mountains of Sion, and receiving into His pure bosom as upon a lofty throne, and one transcending the nature of man, the Monarch of all,[29]</p><p>The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew</p><p>And after this he took Him up into his cloak and kissed His feet, and said: Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word: for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast prepared before the face of all peoples, to be a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy people Israel.[38]</p>","source_html_sha256":"ad2e29f6d34e20636d161708ed07f1cf157291c65ed895abae80572135cc037e","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":2297,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"6f1bd448afb14154ae3081029345f28b1226a12aa49b2ad2507cd06410cfe9c9","translator":null,"work":null}