{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-83","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":26,"verse_to":26},"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>: One does not sin who afterward unwittingly eats food which he had previously refused as belonging to idols. Vegetables and any kind of fruit grown in any field are God's who created them.</p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: But \"the earth is God's, and the fulness thereof,\" says the Scripture, teaching that good things come from God to men; it being through divine power and might that the distribution of them comes to the help of man.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 6</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: But he who culls what is useful for the advantage of the catechumens, and especially when they are Greeks (and \"the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof\"), must not abstain from erudition, like irrational animals; but he must collect as many aids as possible for his hearers. But he must by no means linger over these studies, except solely for the advantage accruing from them; so that, on grasping and obtaining this, he may be able to take his departure home to the true philosophy, which is a strong cable for the soul, providing security from everything.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 6</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: And, \"Let no one seek his own advantage, but also that of his neighbour,\" so as to be able at once to do and to teach, building and building up. For that \"the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof,\" is admitted; but the conscience of the weak is supported. \"Conscience, I say, not his own, but that of the other; for why is my liberty judged of by another conscience? For if I by grace am partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.\"<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 4</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For to the Lord belongeth the earth and the fulness thereof.\" Not to the devils. Now if the earth and the fruits and the beasts be all His, nothing is unclean: but it becomes unclean otherwise, from our intention and our disobedience. Wherefore he not only gave permission, but also...<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 25</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"5ba0b88ba371a1e6762e458417553c71255ea8514857fcf25d23b067e949cc0c","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":83,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d38f33d7392a7b6b8acfb0c845ba8a1712c4feee6e462594077ad72ce765c890","translator":null,"work":null}