{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3236","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":37,"verse_to":37},"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>Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics</p><p>Moreover, they remembered the words): \"Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than this cometh of evil; \"[289]</p><p>Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ</p><p>Light is light; and darkness, darkness; yea is yea; and nay, nay; \"whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.\"[318]</p><p>Tertullian Against Praxeas</p><p>For, of course, all things will be what their names represent them to be; and what they are and ever will be, that will they be called; and the distinction indicated by the names does not at all admit of any confusion, because there is none in the things which they designate. \"Yes is yes, and no is no; for what is more than these, cometh of evil.\"[102]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle LIV</p><p>Already their case has been examined, already sentence concerning them has been pronounced; nor is it fitting for the dignity of priests to be blamed for the levity of a changeable and inconstant mind, when the Lord teaches and says, \"Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay.\"[55]</p><p>Clementine Homily III</p><p>\"But to those who think, as the Scriptures teach, that God swears, He said, `Let your yea be yea, and nay, nay; for what is more than these is of the evil one.'[54]</p><p>Clementine Homily XIX</p><p>Moreover, in giving advice, He said, `Let your yea be yea, and your nay nay; for what is more than these is of the evil one.'[8]</p>","source_html_sha256":"153d9b18815dae0084fd1b62e4add54a66398efed3b623c5a4be757f3bab2120","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3236,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"2b20d5c449e2d5cce396db484729baa03440314d828ccece6c1319ce148f0ed1","translator":null,"work":null}