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The Clementine Homilies

Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler

Chapter 52

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Author: Anonymous Pseudo-Clementine compiler

Chapter LII.—Sins of the Saints Denied.

Then Peter answered: “Assuredly, with good reason, I

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neither

believe

anything

against

God

,

nor

against

the

just

men

recorded

in

the

law

,

taking

for

granted

that

they

are

impious

imaginations

.

For

,

as

I

am

persuaded

,

neither

was

Adam

a

transgressor

,

who

was

fashioned

by

the

hands

of

God

;

nor

was

Noah

drunken

,

who

was

found

righteous

above

all

the

world

;

nor

did

Abraham

live

with

three

wives

at

once

,

who

,

on

account

of

his

sobriety

,

was

thought

worthy

of

a

numerous

posterity

;

nor

did

Jacob

associate

with

four

—

of

whom

two

were

sisters

—

who

was

the

father

of

the

twelve

tribes

,

and

who

intimated

the

coming

of

the

presence

of

our

Master

;

nor

was

Moses

a

murderer

,

nor

did

he

learn

to

judge

from

an

idolatrous

priest

—

he

who

set

forth

the

law

of

God

to

all

the

world

,

and

for

his

right

judgment

has

been

testified

to

as

a

faithful

steward

.

Chapter LII.—Other Sayings of Christ.

“Since, then, while the heaven and the earth still stand, sacrifices have passed away, and kingdoms, and prophecies among those who are born of woman, and such like, as not being ordinances of God; hence therefore He says, ‘Every plant which the heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.’ Wherefore He, being the true Prophet, said, ‘I am the gate of life; he who entereth through me entereth into life,’ there being no other teaching able to save. Wherefore also He cried, and said, ‘Come unto me, all who labour,’ that is, who are seeking the truth, and not finding it; and again, ‘My sheep hear my voice;’ and elsewhere, ‘Seek and find,’ since the truth does not lie on the surface.

Notes

1
Gen. vii. 1.
1
Matt. xv. 13.
2
John x. 9.
3
Matt. xi. 28.
4
John x. 3.
5
Matt. vii. 7.