{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-1374","native_reference":{"book_number":650,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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>1 Clement</p><p>\"who, being the brightness of His majesty, is by so much greater than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.\"[155]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II</p><p>of all things, then He is discovered to be the one only God who created all things, who alone is Omnipotent, and who is the only Father rounding and forming all things, visible and invisible, such as may be perceived by our senses and such as cannot, heavenly and earthly, \"by the word of His power; \"[272]</p><p>Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth</p><p>\" \"Because,\" he answered, \"God planted the vineyard, that is to say, He created the people, and gave them to His Son; and the Son appointed His angels over them to keep them; and He Himself purged away their sins, having suffered many trials and undergone many labours, for no one is able to dig without labour and toil. He Himself, then, having purged away the sins of the people, showed them the paths of life[16]</p><p>Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth</p><p>\" \"Listen,\" he said: \"the name of the Son of God is great, and cannot be contained, and supports the whole world.[22]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII</p><p>) of the glory of the Father\"[87]</p><p>Tertullian An Answer to the Jews</p><p>For God the Father none ever saw, and lived.[170]</p><p>Five Books in Reply to Marcion</p><p>An Image,[341]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book I</p><p>And when writing to the Hebrews, he says of Him that He is \"the brightness of His glory, and the express image of His person.\"[36]</p><p>But since we quoted the language of Paul regarding Christ, where He says of Him that He is \"the brightness of the glory of God, and the express figure of His person,\"[42]</p><p>,[44]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book IV</p><p>and Paul also declares that the Son is the splendour of everlasting light.[20]</p><p>As light, accordingly, could never exist without splendour, so neither can the Son be understood to exist without the Father; for He is called the \"express image of His person,\"[21]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book VIII</p><p>So entirely are they one, that he who has seen the Son, \"who is the brightness of God's glory, and the express image of His person,\"[28]</p><p>Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments</p><p>and yet confers liberty on the world;[405]</p><p>A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity</p><p>And thus the weakness and imperfection of the human destiny is nourished, led up, and educated by Him; so that, being accustomed to look upon the Son, it may one day be able to see God the Father Himself also as He is, that it may not be stricken by His sudden and intolerable brightness, and be hindered from being able to see God the Father, whom it has always desired.[137]</p><p>Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Fourth Homily</p><p>Thou who art the brightness of the Father's glory;[11]</p><p>Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy</p><p>person.\"[37]</p><p>and, \"From the womb, before the morning have I begotten Thee? \"[52]</p><p>Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna</p><p>of the most beautiful flower; the mother of the Creator; the nurse of the Nourisher; the circumference of Him who embraces all things; the upholder of Him[86]</p><p>Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV</p><p>as a stream flowing forth from it: the former as the sun, the latter as it were a ray[395]</p><p>\"who, being the brightness of His majesty, is by so much greater than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.\"[196]</p>","source_html_sha256":"0a311c49c99b12a3b090c33785b1136ad5cf081b2e16c99b64d4df896e432926","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":1374,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"f05c097f21cc8523145c6631cb3a01b16632f437138524b9ac57be9b33420529","translator":null,"work":null}