{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4537","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":20,"chapter_to":20,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>Origen of Alexandria</b>: [God] warns a man inclined to idolatry not to practice it. But when a man who is not so inclined but yet through cowardice, which he calls \"accommodation,\" pretends to worship idols as the masses do, he does not, it is true, worship idols, but he does bow before them. And I would say that they who abjure Christianity in the courtroom or even before they are brought there do not worship idols, but they do bow down before them; for they apply to inanimate and unheeding matter the name of the Lord God, namely \"God\".<br/><i>— EXHORTATION TO MARTYRDOM 6</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: It is obvious that the Jews follow the law where God is represented as saying, \"You shall have none other gods but me; you shall not make for yourself an idol nor any likeness of anything in the heaven above and in the earth beneath and in the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor worship them.\" And they worship none other than the supreme God who made heaven and everything else. It is clear then that since those who live according to the law reverence him who made the heavens, they do not reverence the heavens together with God. Furthermore, none of those who serve the Mosaic law worship the angels in heaven. And in the same way that they do not worship the sun, moon and stars, \"the world of heaven,\" they avoid worshiping heaven and the angels in it.<br/><i>— AGAINST CELSUS 5.6</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Christians and Jews are led to avoid temples and altars and images by the command \"You shall fear the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.\" … And not only do they avoid them, but when necessary they readily come to the point of death to avoid defiling their conception of the God of the universe by any act of this kind contrary to his law.<br/><i>— AGAINST CELSUS 7.64</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: When men try to seduce us to apostasy, it is useful to reflect upon what God wishes to teach us when he says, \"I am the Lord your God, jealous.\" In my view, just as the bridegroom who wishes to make his bride live chastely so as to give herself entirely to him and beware of any relationship whatever with any man other than her husband, pretends, though he be wise, to be jealous—he uses this pretense as a kind of antidote for his bride—so the Lawgiver, especially when he reveals himself as \"the firstborn of every creature,\" says to his bride, the soul, that he is a jealous God. In this way he keeps his followers from any fornication with demons and pretended gods.<br/><i>— EXHORTATION TO MARTYRDOM 9</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: Now Christ is especially jealous for the house of God in each of us, not wishing it to be a house of merchandise or that the house of prayer become a den of thieves, since he is Son of a jealous God. This is the case if we understand such words from the Scriptures in a reasonable manner, which were spoken metaphorically from the human viewpoint to set forth the fact that God wishes nothing alien to his will to be mingled with the soul of any, but especially with the soul of those who wish to receive [the teachings of the] most divine faith.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF John 10.221</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1b2815b76f04bfe174b7173bbc84b45693dd8c64c9f67bfafa936f1ab9c7b2f5","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4537,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ce447f4dc5e6eef605efc3ca0a6b24d043fcf29e66c1f8249e1357ce3d9b17b8","translator":null,"work":null}