{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-314","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":20},"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 Stromata Book I</p><p>\"For not only for the Hebrews and those that are under the law,\" according to the apostle, \"is it right to become a Jew, but also a Greek for the sake of the Greeks, that we may gain all.\"[37]</p><p>Also in the Epistle to the Colossians he writes, \"Admonishing every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ.\"[38]</p><p>Let a man milk the sheep's milk if he need sustenance: let him shear the wool if he need clothing. And in this way let me produce the fruit of the Greek erudition.[39]</p><p>, that evil has an evil nature, and can never turn out the producer of aught that is good; indicating that philosophy is in a sense a work of Divine Providence.[40]</p><p>Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics</p><p>doctrine into suspicion, I will put in a defence, as it were, for Peter, to the effect that even Paul said that he was \"made all things to all men-to the Jews a Jew,\" to those who were not Jews as one who was not a Jew-\"that he might gain all.\"[258]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book V</p><p>Their truth may be inferred from their agreement with the apostle's own profession, how \"to the Jews he became as a Jew, that he might gain the Jews, and to them that were under the law, as under the law,\"-and so here with respect to those who come in secretly,-\"and lastly, how he became all things to all men, that he might gain all.\"[100]</p><p>Origen Commentary on John Book X</p><p>is a different Paul from him who says. Of such an one I will glory, but of myself I will not glory. If he becomes[15]</p><p>Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI</p><p>who in suffering for men \"became a curse for us.\" But just as fittingly Paul became a Jew to the Jews that he might gain Jews,[70]</p>","source_html_sha256":"e1746898a3122f7f524f55620be877e580c981bfbc825699e3e70f7bc4147fe9","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":314,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"2d65008443a1d443bcff3b6c0462879bb0505b4b1f00343ac04bafb91e369cc6","translator":null,"work":null}