{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3179","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":39,"verse_to":39},"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><b>Bede</b>: But if it is from God, you will not be able to destroy them. And in the Greek, more is added here: Neither you, nor your rulers.<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Lest you be found to be fighting against God. For what we have as fighting against God, or, as some have interpreted, opposing God, in Greek one word is used, θεομάχοι. I thought this worth mentioning, so that when we find θεομάχος or θεομαχίαν in histories, we can more surely know the meaning of the term.<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Once more he checks them by the impossibility and the inexpediency of the thing, saying, \"Lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.\" And he does not say, If Christ be God; but the work itself declares this. He does not pronounce upon it, either that it is \"of men,\" or that it is \"of God;\" but he leaves the proof to the future. But what a great thing it was that he ventured to affirm: that it was of God, when in the sequel it received its proof from the events! Great boldness of speech, great freedom from all respect of persons!<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 14</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: We who are without fear ourselves are not seeking to frighten you, but we would save all men if possible by warning them not to fight with God. You may perform the duties of your charge, and yet remember the claims of humanity; if on no other ground than that you are liable to punishment yourself, (you ought to do so).<br/><i>— To Scapula</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"cf3c3fd171ab34d2607d86ef3b4b7618b9200f6ec11831878b89b8fcb067bf87","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3179,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"9cda305bbcac158fe6ed9274f44de7ecb28606e8925239120da618452205a819","translator":null,"work":null}