{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-1206","native_reference":{"book_number":560,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I</p><p>And writing to the Ephesians, he has unfolded in the clearest manner the point in question, speaking to the following effect: \"Till we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we be no longer children, tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, by the craft of men, by their cunning in stratagems of deceit; but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up to Him in all things,\"[39]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI</p><p>And the structure's terminating in a cubit is the symbol of the advancement of the righteous to oneness and to \"the unity of the faith.\"[152]</p><p>from glory) till they grow into \"a perfect man.\"[196]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII</p><p>of virtue and the increase of righteousness, should obtain a better place in the universe, as tending in each step of advancement towards the habit of impassibility, till \"it come to a perfect man,\"[16]</p><p>For by the service of what is best and most exalted, which is characterized by unity, it renders the Gnostic at once friend and son, having in truth grown \"a perfect man, up to the measure of full stature.\"[99]</p><p>Now, of what I may call the passionlessness which we attribute to the Gnostic (in which the perfection of the believer, \"advancing by love, comes to a perfect man, to the measure of full stature,\"[139]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book I</p><p>And this is further confirmed by the language of the Apostle Paul: \"Until we all come in the unity of the faith to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.\"[110]</p><p>Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments</p><p>For there is also one Son (or Servant) of God, by whom we too, receiving the regeneration through the Holy Spirit, desire to come all unto one perfect and heavenly man.[20]</p><p>Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X</p><p>according to what is said by Solomon, in a threefold way; so that even now the light of the disciples of Jesus shines before the rest of men, and after death before the resurrection, and after the resurrection \"until all shall attain unto a full-grown man,\"[18]</p><p>Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII</p><p>And the Apostle says, \"Until we all attain unto a full-grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; \"[153]</p>","source_html_sha256":"8d9eeb68641a2aa5603e50c351249bd3d8919925e880e57ad325b0f424b5cda3","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":1206,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"cd0631443146884a9e95a5f226af21f381c281d9048eb0ffd6722727b7894e93","translator":null,"work":null}