The Clementine Homilies
Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler
Chapter 51
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Chapter LI.—Weigh in the Balance.
Then Peter said: “If, therefore, some of the
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The Clementine Homilies
Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler
Then Peter said: “If, therefore, some of the
“And His sending to the scribes and teachers of the existing Scriptures, as to those who knew the true things of the law that then was, is well known. And also that He said, ‘I am not come to destroy the law,’ and yet that He appeared to be destroying it, is the part of one intimating that the things which He destroyed did not belong to the law. And His saying, ‘The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but one jot or one tittle shall not pass from the law,’ intimated that the things which pass away before the heaven and the earth do not belong to the law in reality.
This is quoted three times in the Homilies as a saying of our Lord, viz., here and in Homily III. chap. 50, and Homily XVIII. chap. 20. It is probably taken from one of the apocryphal Gospels. In Homily XVIII. chap. 20 the meaning is shown to be, that as it is the part of a money-changer to distinguish spurious coins from genuine, so it is part of a Christian to distinguish false statements from true.
A corruption of the texts, Matt. xxii. 29; Mark xii. 24.
Matt. v. 17.
Matt. v. 18.