{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-651","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":4,"chapter_to":4,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III</p><p>As to their affirming that Paul said plainly in the Second [Epistle] to the Corinthians, \"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not,\"[51]</p><p>Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV</p><p>In accordance with this word, therefore, does the apostle say, in the Second the] to the Corinthians: \"In whom the this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine [unto them].\"[413]</p><p>Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus</p><p>god of the world; \"[97]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book V</p><p>The latter method has been adopted by Marcion, by reading the passage which follows, \"in whom the God of this world,\"[516]</p><p>) of the Lord here is Christ. Wherefore the apostle said above: Christ, who is the image of God.\"[534]</p><p>.[784]</p><p>Tertullian On Modesty</p><p>who, after wandering far from his Father, squanders, by living heathenishly, the \"substance\" received from God his Father,-(the substance), of course, of baptism-(the substance), of course, of the Holy Spirit, and (in consequence) of eternal hope; if, stripped of his mental \"goods,\" he has even handed his service over to the prince of the world[103]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book IV</p><p>If any one, indeed, venture to ascribe essential corruption to Him who was made after the image and likeness of God, then, in my opinion, this impious charge extends even to the Son of God Himself, for He is called in Scripture the image of God.[65]</p><p>Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes</p><p>and the god and prince of the age of this world, who blinds the minds of men that they may not be obedient to the truth in the Gospel of Christ?[107]</p><p>Then Manes made the following reply to him: And what manner of God now is it that blinds one? For it is Paul who uses these words: \"In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the-Gospel should shine in them.\"[716]</p><p>Lactantius Divine Institutes Book II</p><p>in man, those things which belong to God occupy the higher part, namely the soul, which has dominion over the body; but those which belong to the devil occupy the lower[183]</p><p>He plainly prohibited them from doing that which He knew that they would do, that they might entertain no hope of pardon. Therefore, while they abode among men, that most deceitful ruler[208]</p><p>Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI</p><p>by him who is deified by the sons of this world, and on this account is called by Paul the god of this world.[122]</p><p>Who are such? The Pharisees, whose minds the god of this world hath blinded as they are unbelieving, because they have not believed in Jesus Christ; and he hath blinded them so that the \"light of the Gospel of the glory of God in the face of Christ should not dawn upon them.\"[127]</p>","source_html_sha256":"8bfffff931f047e5e0c6463e5c9fddde7aa621f8803b4fe4769d8c9ffc9f3816","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":651,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"663c6618a5e641ebbfa725d49bc43944e5c35f404dfdfc5ac37de081c45af340","translator":null,"work":null}