{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-471","native_reference":{"book_number":690,"chapter_from":1,"chapter_to":1,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":10,"verse_to":10},"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>Andreas of Caesarea</b>: If we say that we have not sinned, we reject his word, which is spirit and life.<br/><i>— CATENA</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Who is there on earth without sin? Even a baby has contracted it from its parents.<br/><i>— SERMONS 181.1</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: \"If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.\" If thou shalt say, I have not sinned, thou makest Him a liar, while thou wishest to make thyself true. How is it possible that God should be a liar, and man true, when the Scripture saith the contrary, \"Every man a liar, God alone true\"? Consequently, God true through Himself, thou true through God; because through thyself, a liar.<br/><i>— Ten Homilies on 1 John 1</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: If we say that we have not sinned, etc. For he himself said through a man filled with his Spirit: There is no just man on earth who does good and does not sin (Ecclesiastes 7). But even through himself, he taught us that we cannot be free from sins, as he commanded us to pray thus: Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors (Matthew 6). Therefore, no one, being taught by Pelagius, should believe that he can live free from sins and debts, when he sees the apostles, being taught by the Lord, praying for their own sins. And elsewhere it is written: The just man falls seven times a day and rises again (Proverbs 24). For it is impossible for any of the saints not to sometimes fall into slight sins, which are committed through speech, thought, ignorance, forgetfulness, necessity, will, or surprise, and yet they do not cease to be just, because with the Lord's help, they quickly rise from guilt.<br/><i>— Commentary on the Catholic Epistles</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria ((as quoted by Cassiodorus))</b>: \"If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.\" His doctrine, that is, or word is truth.<br/><i>— From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus</i></p><p><b>John Cassian</b>: Among holy men it is impossible not to fall into those small lapses which occur because of something said, some thought, some surreptitious act. These sins are quite different from those which are called mortal, but they are not without blame or reproach.<br/><i>— CONFERENCE 11.9</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"5d4b83851f7499305dca4bf05101485f1130fb681451f61aeb7f154773d067dd","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":471,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e7eda76cfbfea28ced3ea39deb99ac85a57a7063522b86113426edd4a0825587","translator":null,"work":null}