{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3520","native_reference":{"book_number":480,"chapter_from":8,"chapter_to":8,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":36,"verse_to":36},"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 VI</p><p>\" But plainly, unrighteous gain is pleasure and pain, toil and fear; and, to speak comprehensively, the passions of the soul, the present of which is delightful, the future vexatious. \"For what is the profit,\" it is said, \"if you gain the world and lose the soul? \"[212]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise III On the Lapsed</p><p>he drew near to perish, to him a funeral pile? Ought he not to shudder at and flee from the devil's altar, which he had seen to smoke, and to be redolent of a foul rector, as if it were the funeral and sepulchre of his life? Why bring with you, O wretched man, a sacrifice? why immolate a victim? You yourself have come to the altar an offering; you yourself have come a victim: there you have immolated your salvation, your hope; there you have burnt up your faith in those deadly fires.[5]</p>","source_html_sha256":"4b8eaed4cebced1f2ea3adfb693187a2529872b1d912583ad756953086b8a935","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3520,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"3269151d5c55e8d30a35f44dabe91e2063c584301f97ec4e5f742ae10657eec4","translator":null,"work":null}