{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-2379","native_reference":{"book_number":490,"chapter_from":22,"chapter_to":22,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":31,"verse_to":31},"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 Smyrnaeans</p><p>the son of Josedech, who sought to \"sift the faith\"[51]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV</p><p>says: \"You will escape the energy of the wild beast, if your heart become pure and blameless.\" Also the Lord Himself says: \"Satan hath desired to sift you; but I have prayed.\"[111]</p><p>Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione</p><p>\" So he asked in the case of the apostles likewise an opportunity to tempt them, having it only by special allowance, since the Lord in the Gospel says to Peter, \"Behold, Satan asked that he might sift you as grain; but I have prayed for you that your faith fail not; \"[7]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle VII</p><p>But He so prayed for us, that in another place we read, \"And the Lord said to Peter, Behold, Satan has desired to sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.\"[17]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI</p><p>and he oftentimes sought to sift us, that our faith might fail.[39]</p>","source_html_sha256":"95d0580970508cc10a1157a5542cc779d61a3602f0703356ddd516f700ce44d6","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":2379,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"c39eec274f61d4c5a6268cbd559c8675e5b45605f002c036869949e79d2910fc","translator":null,"work":null}