{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"5fddf067e74d742c7a4e862c9286868f5120e39076e14ec91fefdb8da5e6115c","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-anf-686","native_reference":{"book_number":540,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"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 Ephesians</p><p>\"What communion hath light with darkness? or Christ with Belial? Or what portion hath he that believeth with an infidel? or the temple of God with idols? \"[117]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III</p><p>\"Quae est enim participatio justitiae et injustitiae? aut quae luci cure tenebris societas? quae est autem conventio Christo cum Belial? quae pars est fideli cum infideli? quae est autem consensio templo Dei cum idolis?[102]</p><p>Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V</p><p>\"Or what communion hath light with darkness? or what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath the believer with the unbeliever? \"[108]</p><p>Tertullian On Idolatry</p><p>purposes, \"There is nought of communion between light and darkness,\"[94]</p><p>Tertullian Against Marcion Book III</p><p>could he combine within himself that communion of light and darkness, or truth and error, which the apostle says cannot co-exist?[119]</p><p>Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book I</p><p>? What commerce have they who are to condemn with them who are to be condemned? The same, I take it, as Christ has with Belial.[20]</p><p>Cyprian Epistle LXXII</p><p>how is such a word as that able to give remission of sins, which creeps like a canker to the ears of the hearers? And when they say that there can be no fellowship between righteousness and un-righteousness, no communion between light and darkness,[19]</p><p>Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews</p><p>For what participation is there between righteousness and unrighteousness? or what communication hath light with darkness? \"[702]</p><p>Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy</p><p>e can the truth itself and God the Word receive? In what respect can the life and the true light be made better? And if this be so, how much more unnatural is it that wisdom should ever be capable of folly; that the power of God should be con-joined with infirmity; that reason should be obscured by unreason; or that darkness should be mixed up with the true light? And the apostle says, on this place, \"What communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? \"[19]</p><p>But they will not prevail; for the truth prevails, and there is no communion betwixt light and darkness, no concord between Christ and Belial.[47]</p><p>Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII</p><p>Let not one of the godly pray with an heretic, no, not in the house. For \"what fellowship hath light with darkness? \"[174]</p><p>The Second Epistle of Pope Callistus</p><p>Whence the apostle says: \"What part hath he that believeth with an infidel? or what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? \"[3]</p>","source_html_sha256":"a217f0ca1ee237057ec21000a4776fad903d2dda07bb6b041cfc1f370af2d395","source_module":"ANF","source_row_id":686,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/anf/","text_sha256":"7a27971785a0e3fd672db3fa73c4958b0e0c0459d2cfcce6fede5b0065d6b1e3","translator":null,"work":null}