{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3451","native_reference":{"book_number":580,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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>Clement of Alexandria</b>: I hear also those words of his, \"And these things I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words, or one should enter in to spoil you.\" And again, \"Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ;\" branding not all philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, which abolishes providence and deifies pleasure, and whatever other philosophy honours the elements, but places not over them the efficient cause, nor apprehends the Creator. ... And, in truth, the Word does not wish him who has believed to be idle. For He says, \"Seek, and ye shall find.\" But seeking ends in finding, driving out the empty trifling, and approving of the contemplation which confirms our faith. \"And this I say, lest any man beguile you with enticing words,\" says the apostle, evidently as having learned to distinguish what was said by him, and as being taught to meet objections.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 1</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.\"</p><p>Seest thou that he saith, I have therefore said this, that ye may not seek it from men. \"Delude you,\" he saith, \"with persuasiveness of speech.\" For what if any doth speak, and speak persuasively?<br/><i>— Homily on Colossians 5</i></p><p><b>Methodius of Olympus</b>: And it has seemed good to Thee, by means of our Lord and Creator, to fashion us again unto immortality; and Thou hast graciously given unto us a return to Paradise by means of Him who separated us from the joys of Paradise; and by means of Him who hath power to forgive sins Thou hast blotted out the handwriting which was against us. Lastly, by means of Him who is a partaker of Thy throne and who cannot be separated from Thy divine nature, Thou hast given unto us the gift of reconciliation and access unto Thee with confidence.<br/><i>— Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9ee4b7661660bfd53ad9342116116a42ce202fd3003f14cb1cfe869761f47d50","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3451,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2374d7ecc12f2ccfba0705e2f6e2be0fe6b97f065ac09c4e15a0a01c0f38b1a2","translator":null,"work":null}