{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-2733","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":41,"verse_to":41},"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 III</p><p>that the Egyptians themselves might testify that it is the finger of God which works salvation for the people, and not the son of Joseph. For if He were the son of Joseph, how could He be greater than Solomon, of greater than Jonah,[420]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV</p><p>Or how shall they receive adoption from God if they remain in this [kind of] generation, which is naturally possessed by man in this world? And how could He (Christ) have been greater than Solomon,[476]</p><p>Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ</p><p>Now, that we may give a simpler answer, it was not fit that the Son of God should be born of a human father's seed, lest, if He were wholly the Son of a man, He should fail to be also the Son of God, and have nothing more than \"a Solomon\" or \"a Jonas,\"[248]</p><p>Recognitions of Clement VI</p><p>But with respect to those who refused to repent of their evil deeds, He spoke thus: `The men of Nineve shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.'[15]</p><p>Clementine Homily XI</p><p>And to those amongst the people who would not repent at His preaching He said, `The men of Nineveh shall rise up with this generation and shall condemn it, for they heard and repented on the preaching of Jonas: and behold, a greater is here, and no one believes.'[12]</p>","source_html_sha256":"05e0476432983f3c2d91affe7603e625dfa6f339ad5acf536e35f67eba3dc15b","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":2733,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"7cd877d66a277861057a940e356dfd32cbffa0e6c208af606db7e9ff63c7c83e","translator":null,"work":null}