{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6982","native_reference":{"book_number":290,"chapter_from":11,"chapter_to":11,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: Listen to how the flesh of God becomes an antidote: The Word became flesh; He put His hand into the den of vipers, He expelled the venom, He removed sin; that is, He condemned sin in the flesh.<br/><i>— Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms, On Psalms 37.4</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Happily the Creator has promised by Isaiah to give this power even to little children, of putting their hand in the cockatrice den and on the hole of the young asps without at all receiving hurt. And, indeed, we are aware … that under the figure of scorpions and serpents are portended evil spirits, whose very prince is described by the name of serpent, dragon and every other most conspicuous beast in the power of the Creator. This power the Creator conferred first of all upon his Christ, even as the ninetieth psalm says to him: \"Upon the asp and the basilisk shall you tread; the lion and the dragon shall you trample under foot.\" So also Isaiah: \"In that day the Lord God shall draw his sacred, great and strong sword\" (even his Christ) \"against that dragon, that great and tortuous serpent; and he shall slay him in that day.\"<br/><i>— AGAINST MARCION 4.24</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"fbdb70e7eab893dcb10aa21af5ca917060f167c7946f730ec0922b9f20fdbb2f","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6982,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"3745152a3193997db947f7b8de1d8cc0805278648c445f519912fd993215aa66","translator":null,"work":null}