{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3221","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":20},"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>Dialogue of Justin</p><p>For He exhorted His disciples to surpass the pharisaic way of living, with the warning, that if they did not, they might be sure they could not be saved; and these words are recorded in the memoirs: `Unless your righteousness exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.'[409]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV</p><p>For all these do not contain or imply an opposition to and an overturning of the [precepts] of the past, as Marcion's followers do strenuously maintain; but [they exhibit] a fulfilling and an extension of them, as He does Himself declare: \"Unless your righteousness shall exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.\"[155]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III</p><p>Revera enim, ut dixit Dominus: \"Nisi abundavetit justitia vestra plus quam scribarum et Pharisaeorum, non intrabitis in regnum Dei.\"[26]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI</p><p>Through the knowledge, then, as appears, of a bad and good life is the Gnostic saved, understanding and executing \"more than the scribes and Pharisees.\"[222]</p><p>After abandoning idols, then, they will hear the Scripture, \"Unless your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees \"[306]</p><p>Tertullian On Idolatry</p><p>How will our \"righteousness abound above that of the Scribes and Pharisees,\" as the Lord has prescribed,[10]</p><p>Tertullian On Monogamy</p><p>as relate to righteousness not only permanently remain reserved, but even amplified; in order, to be sure, that our righteousness may be able to redound above the righteousness of the scribes and of the Pharisees.[43]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II</p><p>For the Lord says to you in the Gospel: \"Unless your righteousness abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.\"[169]</p>","source_html_sha256":"a69cec65d584b374dcd194bf6dace2301d007fe5c5a2e710d57eab930babfbdd","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3221,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"8fa745f78b5b756832a1dfaefa7b1e9969d3dd0fb58a3db91fabdcd22a5a3416","translator":null,"work":null}