{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4974","native_reference":{"book_number":330,"chapter_from":28,"chapter_to":28,"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><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The Manichaeans do not understand that if the devil is evil by nature, there can be no question of sin at all. They have no reply to the witness of the prophets, for example, where Isaiah, representing the devil figuratively in the person of the prince of Babylon, asks, \"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of the dawn?\" or where Ezekiel says, \"You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering.\" These texts indicate that the devil was for a time without sin.<br/><i>— City of God 11.15</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: He had in himself the power of admitting either good or evil. Falling away from good, he turned with his whole mind to evil. There are other created beings who, while possessing the power to choose either, by the exercise of free will flee from evil and cleave to the good.<br/><i>— ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 1:8.3</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"e8a05b1e58fec5e3cd633eb45054c834d66972ae4736fed74f7505be19faea73","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4974,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"97804b82ff9b9923e768e0f64db48641a809ff26d73c213ab02458e39f5205b1","translator":null,"work":null}