{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-359","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"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><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Paul means that it would be better to die than to mix with fellow believers who sin like the fornicator in question, because death would put an end to it sooner rather than later.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Immoral unbelievers cannot harm the church, but immoral believers corrupt it from within, which is why they must be avoided and expelled.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 2.26.23-26</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: No doubt he used to please them by celebrating the Saturnalia and New-year's day! [Was it so] or was it by moderation and patience? by gravity, by kindness, by integrity? In like manner, when he is saying, \"I have become all things to all, that I may gain all,\" does he mean \"to idolaters an idolater? \"\"to heathens a heathen? \"\"to the worldly worldly? \"But albeit he does not prohibit us from having our conversation with idolaters and adulterers, and the other criminals, saying, \"Otherwise ye would go out from the world,\" of course he does not so slacken those reins of conversation that, since it is necessary for us both to live and to mingle with sinners, we may be able to sin with them too.<br/><i>— On Idolatry</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: All waves thereof whatsoever suffocate; every eddy thereof sucks down unto Hades. Let no one say, \"Who will so safely foreguard himself? We shall have to go out of the world!\" As if it were not as well worth while to go out, as to stand in the world as an idolater! Nothing can be easier than caution against idolatry, if the fear of it be our leading fear; any \"necessity\" whatever is too trifling compared to such a peril.<br/><i>— On Idolatry</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Thus our \"adversary\" (therein mentioned ) is the heathen man, who is walking with us along the same road of life which is common to him and ourselves. Now \"we must needs go out of the world,\" if it be not allowed us to have conversation with them.<br/><i>— A Treatise on the Soul</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"adaf3927107d3f9f41c5f5645643686a8c26c0498be3f205564364cc63d05067","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":359,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ddc2eda854c85f7ac11e56e7ca98897fbea69d6d22f6d7adeb9d9ca15ac371fc","translator":null,"work":null}