{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-2521","native_reference":{"book_number":490,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":27,"verse_to":27},"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>Athenagoras A Plea for the Christians</p><p>What, then, are those teachings in which we are brought up? \"I say unto you, Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that persecute you; that ye may be the sons of your Father who is in heaven, who causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.\"[35]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III</p><p>\" And He says: \"If any one strike thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any one take away thy coat, hinder him not from taking thy cloak also.\"[195]</p><p>Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul</p><p>He bids us, therefore, show a kindly disposition to such a man. \"Love your enemies,\" says He, \"pray for them that curse you,\"[243]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV</p><p>\"But I say unto you which hear\" (displaying here that old injunction, of the Creator: \"Speak to the ears of those who lend them to you\"[554]</p><p>2 Clement</p><p>\"There is no thank unto you, if ye love them that love you; but there is thank unto you, if ye love your enemies and them that hate you; \"[97]</p>","source_html_sha256":"263168de909abcccd92cf1d7d428e1adba3926dcb2582811c1ff979fa77a3bf3","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":2521,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"d59be0823b666de74c9418475a3efda1be88650aa16ee1fdf8b55af60c3bd374","translator":null,"work":null}