{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-738","native_reference":{"book_number":680,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"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>Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth</p><p>[Keep the commandments of the Lord, and you will be approved, and inscribed amongst the number of those who observe His commands.] And if you do any good beyond what is commanded by God,[6]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII</p><p>Now all men, having the same judgment, some, following the Word speaking, frame for themselves proofs; while others, giving themselves up to pleasures, wrest Scripture, in accordance with their lusts.[162]</p><p>Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics</p><p>Now, unquestionably, the Divine Scriptures are more fruitful in resources of all kinds for this sort of facility. Nor do I risk contradiction in saying[415]</p><p>Tertullian On Fasting</p><p>But all these (instances) I believe to be unknown to those who are in a state of agitation at our proceedings; or else known by the reading alone, not by careful study as well; in accordance with the greater bulk of \"the unskilled\"[89]</p><p>Lactantius Divine Institutes Book II</p><p>The sum of the matter is this: The unlearned and the foolish esteem false religions as true, because they neither know the true nor understand the false.[28]</p>","source_html_sha256":"1afe19921d72d4ba9dc199e434e215eca7685311d7ad99a3cce1477d68193501","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":738,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"4cd7a35c5dd33fc5501593df436216b6b1f068ec030e6f2438b973befe20e2d7","translator":null,"work":null}