{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-1091","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"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>Ye are initiated into the mysteries of the Gospel with Paul, the holy, the martyred, inasmuch as he was \"a chosen vessel; \"[91]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III</p><p>and then to Ananias, saying regarding him: \"Go thy way; for he is a chosen vessel unto Me, to bear My name among the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. For I will show him, from this time, how great things he must suffer for My name's sake.\"[258]</p><p>Tertullian On Modesty</p><p>the \"vessel of election,\"[153]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book III</p><p>For I am of opinion that there is a certain limit to the powers of human nature, although there may be a Paul, of whom it is said, \"He is a chosen vessel unto Me; \"[303]</p><p>Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes</p><p>and as that Spirit could not abide upon all men, but only on Him who was born of Mary the mother of God, so that Spirit, the Paraclete, could not come into any other, but could only come upon the apostles and the sainted Paul. \"For he is a chosen vessel,\" He says, \"unto me, to bear my name before kings and the Gentiles.\"[331]</p>","source_html_sha256":"e9a3b9b0b59115b1e3a2340af3d98e03a4a9caa63a5ad161e65e83cb3748f674","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":1091,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"bfd0e7992eef51f677380e48657bd0ecc2e467686fd6c88cf504ffc2d6205a6f","translator":null,"work":null}