{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-188","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"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>1 Clement</p><p>For [the Scripture] saith, \"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which He hath prepared for them that wait for Him.\"[143]</p><p>Martyrdom of Polycarp</p><p>For they kept before their view escape from that fire which is eternal and never shall be quenched, and looked forward with the eyes of their heart to those good things which are laid up for such as endure; things \"which ear hath not heard, nor eye seen, neither have entered into the heart of man,\"[5]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V</p><p>And in all these things, and by them all, the same God the Father is manifested, who fashioned man, and gave promise of the inheritance of the earth to the fathers, who brought it (the creature) forth [from bondage] at the resurrection of the just, and fulfils the promises for the kingdom of His Son; subsequently bestowing in a paternal manner those things which neither the eye has seen, nor the ear has heard, nor has [thought concerning them] arisen within the heart of man,[346]</p><p>Theophilus to Autolycus Book I</p><p>seek immortality, He will give life everlasting, joy, peace, rest, and abundance of good things, which neither hath eye seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.[23]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen</p><p>\" What glory, tell me, O blessed One, which \"eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man; \"[126]</p><p>Then shalt thou see my God, and be initiated into the sacred mysteries, and come to the fruition of those things which are laid up in heaven reserved for me, which \"ear hath not heard, nor have they entered into the heart of any.\"[170]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II</p><p>And eyes anointed by the Word, and ears pierced for perception, make a man a hearer and contemplator of divine and sacred things, the Word truly exhibiting the true beauty \"which eye hath not seen nor ear heard before.\"[272]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III</p><p>For those things which are really good, are what \"neither ear hath heard, not hath ever entered into the heart\"[170]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II</p><p>\"Lo, I make new things,\" saith the Word, \"which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man.\"[31]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V</p><p>For God hath revealed it to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.\"[60]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?</p><p>of ineffable and unutterable blessings, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of men; into which angels desire to look, and see what good things God hath prepared for the saints and the children who love Him.\"[30]</p><p>Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh</p><p>the expression means the blessings which await the flesh when in the kingdom of God it shall be renewed, and made like the angels, and waiting to obtain the things \"which neither eye hath seen, nor ear heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man.\"[184]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book III</p><p>From which comparison it may be conceived how great are the comeliness, and splendour, and brilliancy of a spiritual body; and how true it is, that \"eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, what God hath prepared for them that love Him.\"[413]</p><p>Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V</p><p>But swear, says Justinus, if you wish to know \"what eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and the things which have not entered into the heart; \"[246]</p><p>And immediately the gate was opened, and the Father, without the angels, entered, (advancing) towards the Good One, and beheld \"what eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and what hath not entered into the heart of man to (conceive).\"[268]</p><p>\" And when he has sworn this oath, he goes on to the Good One, and beholds \"whatever things eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man; \"[284]</p><p>Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments</p><p>Ye who believe these words, O men, will be partakers with the righteous, and will have part in these future blessings, which \"eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.\"[208]</p><p>Dubious Hippolytus Fragments</p><p>And what mouth then will be able to tell out those blessings which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him?[133]</p><p>A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity</p><p>For if \"the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him, neither eye hath seen, nor ear hath heard, nor the heart of man, nor even his mind has perceived; \"[37]</p><p>Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith</p><p>For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.\"[56]</p><p>Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy</p><p>For if the knowledge of many other things that are incomparably inferior to this, are hidden from human comprehension, such as in the apostle Paul, \"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.\"[12]</p><p>Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV</p><p>For, turning away from the chief good, which is blessed and everlasting on this account, because it cannot be seen,[2]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII</p><p>to inherit those things \"which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, such things as God hath prepared for them that love Him; \"[136]</p><p>2 Clement</p><p>If, therefore, we shall do righteousness in the sight of God, we shall enter into His kingdom, and shall receive the promises, \"which ear hath not heard, nor eye seen, neither have entered into the heart of man.\"[77]</p><p>can partake of, when the Holy Spirit is joined to it. No one can utter or speak \"what the Lord hath prepared\" for His elect.[114]</p><p>Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas</p><p>But we speak about the upper world, about God and angels, about ambrosial food, about garments that last and become not old, about those things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath there come into the heart of sinful men what God has prepared for those that love Him.[29]</p><p>Him.\"[179]</p><p>If, therefore, we shall do righteousness in the sight of God, we shall enter into His kingdom, and shall receive the promises, which \"ear hath not heard, nor eye seen, neither have entered into the heart of man.\"[61]</p><p>Such is the life and immortality, which this flesh may afterwards receive, the Holy Spirit cleaving to it; and no one can either express or utter what things the Lord hath prepared for His elect.[72]</p>","source_html_sha256":"91bb3c81b4a5b9ff23e7641d5a7552bb77817f07311e2fe8d2dc9e2134c512e7","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":188,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"413a94eb1708e7fbde11ddb3e7f6e6672737eafcb8dba85804f9bd3316885eb8","translator":null,"work":null}