{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-1854","native_reference":{"book_number":500,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":24,"verse_to":24},"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>Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus</p><p>but they are according to the Spirit, for we must worship God \"in spirit and in truth.\"[78]</p><p>Address of Tatian to the Greeks</p><p>He alone is without beginning, and He Himself is the beginning of all things. God is a Spirit,[8]</p><p>Tertullian Against Hermogenes</p><p>on the ground that \"God is a Spirit,\"[338]</p><p>Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh</p><p>as being more proximate in character to God.[57]</p><p>Tertullian Against Praxeas</p><p>In what form of God? Of course he means in some form, not in none. For who will deny that God is a body, although \"God is a Spirit? \"[78]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book I</p><p>and in the Gospel according to John, that \"God is a Spirit, and they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.\"[2]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book II</p><p>and in another, \"God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.\"[193]</p><p>A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity</p><p>and gave the reasons, saying, \"God is a Spirit; and those therefore who worship, must worship in spirit and in truth.\"[34]</p><p>Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith</p><p>And again, if the impious say, How will there not be three Gods and three Persons, on the supposition that they have one and the same divinity?-we shall reply: Just because God is the Cause and Father of the Son; and this Son is the image and offspring of the Father, and not His brother; and the Spirit in like manner is the Spirit of God, as it is written, \"God is a Spirit.\"[42]</p><p>For thus the Father is Lord, and the Son also is God; and of God it is said that \"God is a Spirit.\"[64]</p><p>Dionysius Extant Fragments Part I</p><p>Since, then, God is the Light, Christ is the Brightness. And since He is a Spirit-for says He, \"God is a Spirit\"[114]</p>","source_html_sha256":"6f18a779a5548d4359c32f9418f1c7d699cd1109c81382f3b15fc29a34246775","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":1854,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"3bf9f15d3cda8722ab9243a95caf72c338c13e4bc14157f9ac7ac7dbbbd8a01c","translator":null,"work":null}