{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-149","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":15,"chapter_to":15,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":32,"verse_to":32},"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>Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans</p><p>From Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts,[32]</p><p>From Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts,[38]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I</p><p>of the dead, he makes use of a tragic Iambic line, when he said, \"What advantageth it me if the dead are not raised? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners.\"[158]</p><p>Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh</p><p>But even if the apostle had abruptly thrown out the sentence that flesh and blood must be excluded from the kingdom of God, without any previous intimation, of his meaning, would it not have been equally our duty to interpret these two substances as the old man abandoned to mere flesh and blood-in other words, to eating and drinking, one feature of which would be to speak against the faith of the resurrection: \"Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.\"[367]</p><p>Tertullian On Monogamy</p><p>, for to-morrow we shall die; \"[109]</p><p>Tertullian On Modesty</p><p>th the lion already let loose; suppose him on the axle, with the fire already heaped; in the very certainty, I say, and possession of martyrdom: who permits man to condone (offences) which are to be reserved for God, by whom those (offences) have been condemned without discharge, which not even apostles (so far as I know)-martyrs withal themselves-have judged condonable? In short, Paul had already \"fought with beasts at Ephesus,\" when he decreed \"destruction\" to the incestuous person.[288]</p><p>Tertullian On Fasting</p><p>, my (prophets) they were not. Why, then, do not you constantly preach, \"Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die? \"[120]</p><p>Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes</p><p>But if there is to be no judgment, then the keeping of God's commandments will be to no purpose, and there will be no occasion for abstinence: nay, we may say, \"Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.\"[596]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book III</p><p>to another, and disturb them, heaping up to themselves plenty of money, and lend at bitter usury, and are only solicitous about mammon, whose bag is their god; who prefer eating and drinking before all virtue, saying, \"Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die; \"[26]</p><p>Revelation of Paul</p><p>And the angel said to me: Look down to the earth, and behold the soul of the impious, how it goes forth from its tabernacle, which has provoked God to anger, saying, Let us eat and drink;[13]</p><p>Pope Anterus The Epistle</p><p>He feeds on cruelties; he is punished by abstinence; he hates fasts, and his ministers preach, to that effect, as he declares them to be superfluous, having no hope of the future, and echoing that sentence of the apostle, in which he says, \"Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall, die.\"[3]</p>","source_html_sha256":"003c27fca2a6318ba84eac43d830e49054f0f3fbb0062f3c1aa9ea32d90f6572","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":149,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"bb8fedb447426fd3dea9529511a0539b6ecc6ee0386db9770063c7ef7214a70e","translator":null,"work":null}