{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3187","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>: Such also are those who say that they follow Nicolaus, quoting an adage of the man, which they pervert, \"that the flesh must be abused.\" But the worthy man showed that it was necessary to check pleasures and lusts, and by such training to waste away the impulses and propensities of the flesh. But they, abandoning themselves to pleasure like goats, as if insulting the body, lead a life of self-indulgence; not knowing that the body is wasted, being by nature subject to dissolution; while their soul is buried in the mire of vice; following as they do the teaching of pleasure itself, not of the apostolic man.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 2</i></p><p><b>Didymus the Blind</b>: Of those who have a share in virtue, some possess it perfectly and others imperfectly. Hence it is said of Stephen that he was selected because he was full of faith and the Spirit, as every believer is not full of faith. Someone upon whom Peter looked is said to \"have faith\" but not to be full of faith.<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES</i></p><p><b>Hippolytus of Rome</b>: There are, however, among the Gnostics diversities of opinion; but we have decided that it would not be worth while to enumerate the silly doctrines of these (heretics), inasmuch as they are (too) numerous and devoid of reason, and full of blasphemy. Now, even those (of the heretics) who are of a more serious turn in regard of the Divinity, and have derived their systems of speculation from the Greeks, must stand convicted (of these charges). But Nicolaus has been a cause of the wide-spread combination of these wicked men. He, as one of the seven (that were chosen) for the diaconate, was appointed by the Apostles. (But Nicolaus) departed from correct doctrine, and was in the habit of inculcating indifferency of both life and food. And when the disciples (of Nicolaus) continued to offer insult to the Holy Spirit, John reproved them in the Apocalypse as fornicators and eaters of things offered unto idols.<br/><i>— The Refutation of All Heresies - Book 7</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And the saying,\" we are told, \"pleased the whole multitude.\" This too was worthy of their wisdom. All approved of what was said so sensible was it. \"And they chose,\" it says (again it is the people that choose,) \"Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch.\" And in this regard Philip also was admirable: for it is of him that the writer says: \"And we entered into the house of Philip the Evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.\" Dost thou mark how matters are ordered quite otherwise than after the matter of men?<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"128e2eeaba3b7d867c08b64ab221c1d6dc2fa0ff6fe6279e66f9f8b659159e06","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3187,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"43cdc5cd6b2e84f20c66319c846bf75591f96b08d01ec36e585a4545ddbefaab","translator":null,"work":null}