{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2870","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":20,"chapter_to":20,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":30,"verse_to":30},"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>Ammonius of Alexandria</b>: \"In order to draw away the disciples after them.\" Heretics strive to make the people their own instead of the Lord's, so that they might boast in themselves, when the name of the heretics is attached to these people, and so that they can profit from the name. For example, from Mani comes Manichaean, from Arius, Arian, and from Nestorius, Nestorian, and the other types of heresies. Paul himself checked this beforehand when he silenced and censured those who were saying, \"I'm Paul's; I'm Apollos's; I'm Cephas's,\" since he did not want their faith to be explained by the name of a person but by Christ's name; he wanted them all to be called Christians, even though they had been taught by different teachers. Accordingly, whenever all the teachers strive for the same goal of proclaiming the true faith, of profiting the students while suppressing their own names, they are called, by the same name, Christians. If, however, the teachers pervert any of the teachings of the church, then the title of Catholic is denied, and they are called after the name of the teacher.<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 20.29-30</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: And from among yourselves will arise men speaking perverse things. Concerning these, John also says: They went out from us, but they were not of us (1 John II).<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Hegesippus</b>: From these men also come the Menandrianists, and the Marcionists, and the Carpocratians, and the Valentinians, and the Basilidians, and the Saturnilians. Each of these leaders in his own private and distinct capacity brought in his own private opinion. From these have come false Christs, false prophets, false apostles—men who have split up the one Church into parts through their corrupting doctrines, uttered in disparagement of God and of His Christ<br/><i>— Fragments from His Five Books of Commentaries on the Acts of the Church.</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"52474e5328131d5d6b32c5e6080299b028becabc66746aa5d0dd9ea36a513984","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2870,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"0d831776598b8ba87a4402ba9c9471d454dcea7562c2a16ffe3c209ea617e9d1","translator":null,"work":null}