{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3176","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":12,"verse_to":12},"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 IV</p><p>and slaying the impious with the breath of His lips, and having a fan in His hands, and cleansing His floor, and gathering the wheat indeed into His barn, but burning the chaff with unquenchable fire.[468]</p><p>Others again, speaking of Him as a judge, and [referring], as if it were a burning furnace, [to] the day of the Lord, who \"gathers the wheat into His barn, but will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire,\"[500]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I</p><p>\"For the fan is in the Lord's hand, by which the chaff due to the fire is separated from the wheat.\"[219]</p><p>Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics</p><p>and He carries \"His fan in His hand to purge His threshing-floor.\"[26]</p><p>Tertullian On Repentance</p><p>and \"dust of the threshing-floor,\"[26]</p><p>Tertullian To His Wife Book I</p><p>At Rome, for instance, they who have to do with the type of that \"inextinguishable fire,\"[68]</p><p>Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione</p><p>This is that fan which even now cleanses the Lord's threshing-floor-the Church, I mean-winnowing the mixed heap of believers, and separating the grain[2]</p><p>Excerpts of Theodotus</p><p>But some, as Heraclius says, marked with fire the ears of those who were sealed; understanding so the apostolic saying, \"For His fan is in His hand, to purge His floor: and He will gather the wheat into the garner; but the chaff He will burn with fire un-quenchable.\"[43]</p><p>Recognitions of Clement III</p><p>But as the rain given by God equally nourishes the corn and the tares, but at the time of harvest the crops are gathered into the barn, but the chaff or the tares are burnt in the fire,[20]</p><p>Acts and Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Andrew</p><p>The holy Andrew said: Listen, O son of death and chaff made ready for eternal burnings,[15]</p>","source_html_sha256":"26a26af30a566ed2c47eccc917f69cf21f5bda56f4c6a1efd32a9e1e3c321c09","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3176,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"73300c360fe90bc1c48be20ae4dc8eac1cbbe0522ae0f86d601da5ae467bd2b8","translator":null,"work":null}