{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-222","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":15,"chapter_to":15,"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><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: If a lie directed against the temporal life of another is detestable, how much more so is one prejudicial to his eternal life. Such is every lie voiced in the teaching of religion. On that account, the apostle terms it false witness if anyone lies about Christ, even in what might seem to pertain to his praise.<br/><i>— On Lying 13</i></p><p><b>Cosmas Indicopleustes</b>: Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised not up, if so be the dead are not raised. But we, he says, who have testified unto you that God raised up Christ shall be found to be liars and impostors.<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 7</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And not hereby alone doth he show the impiety of these evil doctrines, but he further contends earnestly against them, saying,</p><p>\"Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God: because we witnessed of Him that He raised up Christ; whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.\"</p><p>But if this be absurd, (for it is a charge against God and a calumny,) and He raised Him not, as ye say, not only this, but other absurdities too will follow.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 39</i></p><p><b>Pelagius</b>: Our preaching would not just be pointless, it would be downright false, if this were the case.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 15</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"da456f284b37c103d8d4bba065bd1d42bda211b7140dfd377a4b7ec473f630ca","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":222,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c65726f75175b6542128228bbbb31fd76ba2ee5ea19618364ea0803e78e9a23e","translator":null,"work":null}