{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3173","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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 Magnesians</p><p>For Christ is one, in whom every nation that believes, and every tongue that confesses, is gathered unto God. And those that were of a stony heart have become the children of Abraham, the friend of God;[72]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV</p><p>as John the Baptist says: \"For God is able from these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.\"[76]</p><p>For thus it had behoved the sons of Abraham [to be], whom God has raised up to him from the stones,[344]</p><p>The skill of God, therefore, is not defective, for He has power of the stones to raise up children to Abraham;[627]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V</p><p>Now I have shown a short time ago that the church is the seed of Abraham; and for this reason, that we may know that He who in the New Testament \"raises up from the stones children unto Abraham,\"[302]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen</p><p>As our witness, let us adduce the voice of prophecy accordant with truth, and bewailing those who are crushed in ignorance and folly: \"For God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham; \"[5]</p><p>Tertullian Against Hermogenes</p><p>if nature admits of change from evil to good in Matter, it can be changed from good to evil in God. Here some man will say, Then will \"children not be raised up to Abraham from the stones? \"[120]</p><p>had been by nature evil, why might it not have been changed by God as the more powerful Being, as able to convert the nature of stones into children of Abraham?[404]</p><p>Tertullian On Monogamy</p><p>(nations) who, as the fruit of the \"faith\" which precedes digamy, had to be accounted \"sons of Abraham.\"[36]</p><p>Tertullian On Modesty</p><p>-and in their stead must be under-strewn stones polished and apt for conjunction, and firm,-such as are made (by God) into (sons) of Abraham,[262]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle LXII</p><p>Whence in the Gospel we find that \"children of Abraham are raised from stones, that is, are gathered from the Gentiles.\"[9]</p>","source_html_sha256":"1932bda39033e483b8f1063167eeb9ef3feb3f8ae7bc4ad34a70953a1e44e553","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3173,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"d7b67f81d753ab1ef27d6ea0a7ffdaf74ca5c84901c5f645dd48ee493d2d6552","translator":null,"work":null}