{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-2122","native_reference":{"book_number":490,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":24,"verse_to":24},"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 II</p><p>And He adds a plain example of instruction: \"Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them.\"[219]</p><p>\"Are ye not better than the fowls? \"[220]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV</p><p>against his liberality?-who has adapted the nature of \"life\" itself to a condition \"better than meat,\" and has fashioned the material of \"the body,\" so as to make it \"more than raiment; \"whose \"ravens, too, neither sow nor reap, nor gather into storehouses, and are yet fed\" by Himself; whose \"lilies and grass also toil not, nor spin, and yet are clothed\" by Him; whose \"Solomon, moreover, was transcendent in glory, and yet was not arrayed like\" the humble flower.[1171]</p><p>Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas</p><p>Keep in mind also that saying before mentioned: Look upon the ravens, and behold the fowls of the heaven, that they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, and God takes care of them; bow much more you, O ye of little faith![16]</p>","source_html_sha256":"dfa5e6a2a7b1eba9d6731ae532f570a80edf8c08f873b6c888c9fefe111c4740","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":2122,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"4bf8ae463350a889be898379a711c9e4192b9e62790ce3e255ed129b10495511","translator":null,"work":null}