{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-6347","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":7,"verse_to":7},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: Was not Noah a holy man, who alone in the whole human race together with his whole house deserved to be delivered from the flood? And is not the church prefigured by Noah and his sons? They escape the flood, with wood (which symbolizes the cross) carrying them.<br/><i>— TRACTATES ON THE GOSPEL OF John 11.7.2</i></p><p><b>Cyril of Jerusalem</b>: During the actual exorcism, while waiting for the others, let men be with men and women with women. For now I need Noah's ark that I may have Noah and his sons together, separate from his wife and his sons' wives. For although the ark was one and the door was closed, yet decorum was observed. So now, though the church doors are barred and you are all inside, let distinctions be kept: men with men, women with women. Let not the principle of salvation be made a pretext for spiritual license. Keeping close together is a good rule, provided that passion is kept at a distance.<br/><i>— INTRODUCTORY LECTURE 14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2e7cfad9fa971e67922e9746bd5bfbeed70a34f1f2fc761bee30e58907c0c5b5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":6347,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1ceba29cc57cefcb269c36a5c4c1967f52e64120c210d2091abf4feb7974695e","translator":null,"work":null}