{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3793","native_reference":{"book_number":520,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":21,"verse_to":21},"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>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV</p><p>For he judges the Gentiles, \"who serve the creature more than the Creator,\"[457]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen</p><p>What, then, is the vanity, and what the lie? The holy apostle of the Lord, reprehending the Greeks, will show thee: \"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and changed the glory of God into the likeness of corruptible man, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.\"[98]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book III</p><p>But Paul, as a lover of truth, says of certain wise men among the Greeks, when their statements are true, that \"although they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful.\"[153]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book IV</p><p>although \"they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations; and professing themselves to be wise, they became foolish, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.\"[135]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book VII</p><p>For Scripture testifies, in regard to those who have a knowledge of those things of which Celsus speaks, and who profess a philosophy founded on these principles, that they, \"when they knew God, glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations; \"and notwithstanding the bright light of knowledge with which God had enlightened them, \"their foolish heart\" was carried away, and became \"darkened.\"[109]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus</p><p>1. That idols are not gods, and that the elements are not to be worshipped in the place of gods.[10]</p><p>Methodius Discourse VIII. Thekla</p><p>Now certainly the wretched ones were overwhelmed in the chaos of error, \"because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened; \"[44]</p><p>Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV</p><p>For, having left God, the parent and founder of all things, men began to worship the senseless works[1]</p>","source_html_sha256":"44c1c2537d10db24a72cbc016b799ab94faa4eabe052700f00e4a574d24a429c","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3793,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"ce3f33c5e128be0698aa99df63fcad730dbe03ffa05b3c480df0de1218e7397b","translator":null,"work":null}