{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-5647","native_reference":{"book_number":10,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"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>Ambrose of Milan</b>: How appropriately then Scripture says, \"Lot,\" that is, deviation, \"chose for himself.\" Indeed, God has placed before us good and evil, so that each may choose what he wishes. Let us not then choose that which is more pleasing at first sight but that which is truly better, so that, having been granted the ability to choose what is preferable, we lift up our eyes and be attracted by false beauty while we leave concealed the truth of nature, as one who looks the other way.<br/><i>— On Abraham</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"89d0433b89b40dc5deb7f275b98d312e63cf9078459abb3d155db3f842399945","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":5647,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f62bda583e5dd3c9154022b8593286d07835b6c87c6fae03bebd67d63a7356af","translator":null,"work":null}