{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-3246","native_reference":{"book_number":470,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":48,"verse_to":48},"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>Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians</p><p>of whose kindness the Lord, wishing us also to be imitators, says, \"Be ye perfect, even as also your Father that is in heaven is perfect.\"[23]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI</p><p>Thence assimilation to God the Saviour arises to the Gnostic, as far as permitted to human nature, he being made perfect \"as the Father who is in heaven.\"[184]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII</p><p>For all men are the work of one will. And is it not the Saviour, who wishes the Gnostic to be perfect as\" the heavenly Father,\"[132]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book I</p><p>But as God is eternal and rational, so, I think, He is perfect in all things. \"Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.\"[300]</p><p>Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II</p><p>turn aside from them, as in all other things, so also in your gait; since you ought to be \"perfect, as (is) your Father who is in the heavens.\"[8]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book II</p><p>The injunction also of the Saviour, when exhorting His disciples to the exercise of kindness, \"Be ye perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect; for He commands His sun to rise upon the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust,\"[34]</p><p>Origen de Principiis Book IV</p><p>and, \"Be ye perfect, even as your Father also is perfect.\"[67]</p><p>Origen Against Celsus Book IV</p><p>And therefore we are taught to become \"perfect,\" as our Father in heaven is perfect.[124]</p>","source_html_sha256":"039ac00ceac5165f766bce9e74cff99ce0b4b3f5b48024b0569e713ddd51f35f","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":3246,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"b708820705088e7b066790ff03eeb5ef3c7bfac033310e6e4c999b7140df1878","translator":null,"work":null}