{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2733","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":17,"chapter_to":17,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":32,"verse_to":32},"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>Cosmas Indicopleustes</b>: But further, when they hear the resurrection preached to them, they pronounce this to be impossible, for how, say they, can one who has been used up to form countless bodies in succession, rise up? And, to be brief, they attack with sophistries the Giver of their speech in their endeavour to overthrow the doctrines of His Church.<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 12</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: For the Athenians, although fond of hearing strange things, nevertheless did not attend (to him); for this was not their study, but only to be always having something to say; which was the cause that made them hold off from him. But if this was their custom, how is it that they accuse him, \"he seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods?\" Yes, but these were matters they did not at all know what to make of. Howbeit, he did convert both Dionysius the Areopagite, and some others. For those who were careful of (right) living, quickly received the word; but the others not so.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 39</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And when they heard,\" what great and lofty doctrines, they did not even attend, but jeered at the Resurrection! \"For the natural man,\" it saith, \"receiveth not the things of the Spirit.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 39</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: He declared it then to be of such a character as the Pharisees had admitted it, and such as the Lord had Himself maintained it, and such too as the Sadducees refused to believe it-such refusal leading them indeed to an absolute rejection of the whole verity. Nor had the Athenians previously understood Paul to announce any other resurrection. They had, in fact, derided his announcement; but they would have indulged no such derision if they had heard from him nothing but the restoration of the soul, for they would have received that as the very common anticipation of their own native philosophy.<br/><i>— On the Resurrection of the Flesh</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f312d89313524aa4ff1d1c8452061e374bbaea5455d629472dc40e57f7c6a90a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2733,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ea7f1f4f4373cebf50a59b8e117d7bab5206032df8e0766671fd5aa5ecde1daf","translator":null,"work":null}