{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-1185","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":20},"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>Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth</p><p>\" \"And the stones, sir,\" I said, \"which were taken out of the pit and fitted into the building: what are they? \"\"The first,\" he said, \"the ten, viz, that were placed as a foundation, are the first generation, and the twenty-five the second generation, of righteous men; and the thirty-five are the prophets of God and His ministers; and the forty are the apostles and teachers of the preaching of the Son of God.\"[26]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI</p><p>Certainly He is called \"the chief corner stone; in whom the whole building, fitly joined together, groweth into an holy temple of God,\"[169]</p><p>Tertullian An Answer to the Jews</p><p>, among the Jews from Jerusalem,\" among the other things named, \"the wise architect\" too,[308]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV</p><p>Stones are they, even foundation stones, upon which we are ourselves edified-\"built,\" as St. Paul says, \"upon the foundation of the apostles,\"[1544]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book V</p><p>since the apostle himself never fails to build us up everywhere with (the words of) the prophets. For whence did he learn to call Christ \"the chief corner-stone,\"[809]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book VIII</p><p>and Paul also says, \"Being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ our Lord being the chief cornerstone.\"[40]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle LXVIII</p><p>Peter speaks there, on whom the Church was to be built,[21]</p>","source_html_sha256":"5c52f8b2cfbc30fca3271735effecda22ee731b4a26903023be72098536268e5","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":1185,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"7009b98af7ef1059e3cdf4d17776afe4262f45bce4a3bb6826a72debcb704445","translator":null,"work":null}