διεστείλατο, ηγνοησαμεν, ουδεν ηγούμεθα το αμαρτημα ειναι. For this cause we say and speak these things, lest you should be able to say at that day, no one told us, no one explained to us, we were ignorant, we thought that it was no sin. Heaven is our temple. Chrys. in Epist. ad Heb. c. viii. Hom. xiii. tom. xii. (Editio ut supra.) Δι' ης εγγιζομεν τω Θεώ. Ενταύθα δε ημας εις τον ουρα νον αναγαγών, και δειξας οτι αντι ιερου τον ουρανον εχομεν. p. 822. By which we approach God. But there he is conducting us to heaven, and shewing that we have heaven, instead of a temple. God is the only teacher. Chrys. in c. x. Matt. Hom. xxxiii. tom. vii. p. 388. (Editio ut supra.) Αλλ' ουκ εσμεν αξιοι των αποστολων ημεις; ομολογω κ'αγω, και ουκ αν ποτε αρνηθείην. Ου γαρ μονον εκείνων, αλλ' ουδε της σκιας αξιοι της εκείνων ημεις. Αλλ' όμως τα παρ' υμων γενεσθω. Ουδεν υμας τούτο καταισχυναι δυνησεται, αλλα και ωφελησαι μειζόνως. Όταν γαρ αναξίους τοσαυτην επιδειξησθε την αγαπην και την υπακοην τοτε μειζονα ληψησθε την ανταπόδοσιν. Ουδε γαρ τα ημετερα λεγομεν, επει μηδε εστιν διδασκαλος επι της γης, αλλ' α παρελαβομεν και διδοαμεν, και διδόντες ουδεν πλεον επιζητουμεν παρ' υμων, αλλ' η το φιλεισθαι μόνον. But we are not worthy of the Apostles ? I confess, this, indeed, and I will never deny it; for we are not only not worthy of them, but we are not even worthy of their shadow. But nevertheless let your part be performed. This cannot reflect discredit upon you, but you will the more profit by it. For when you shall have displayed such love and obedience to the unworthy, then you will receive a great recompense. For we do not speak our own words, for there is no teacher upon earth, but we deliver what we have received, and delivering it, all that we seek from you is to be loved. Miracles without godliness are useless. Chrys. in inscrip. Act. Apost. Serm. xii. tom. v. p. 158. (Bened. edit. Parisiis, 1839.) Ιούδας, ο των δωδεκα παρα πασιν ομολογειται, ότι σημεια εποιει, οτι δαιμονας εξεβαλεν, οτι νεκρους ηγειρεν, οτι λεπρούς εκαθηρεν. Αλλ' όμως εξεπεσε της βασιλειας των ουρανων. Ου γαρ ίσχυσεν αυτον σωσαι τα σημεία επειδη ληστης και κλεπτης και του δεσποτου προδοτης εγενετο. Ότι μεν τα σημεια ουκ ισχυει σωσαι χωρις πολιτείας αριστης και βιου καθαρου και διηκριβωμένου, απο τουτων αποδεδεικται. Οτι δε πολιτεια ουχ εχουσα την απο των σημείων παραμυθιαν, ουδε συμμαχον λαβουσα εκεινην, αλλ' καθ' αυτη εαυτην φανείσα, ίσχυσε μετα παρρησιας εισελθειν εις την βασιλειαν των ουρανων, ακουσον αυτού του All confess that Judas, one of the twelve, wrought miracles; that he cast out devils; that he raised the dead; that he cleansed lepers: but nevertheless he fell from the kingdom of heaven. For the miracles could not save him, because he was a thief and a robber, and the betrayer of the That miracles cannot Lord. save without good conduct and a correct and well regulated life is shewn by these things. But that you may know) that conduct, which derives no support from miracles, and which does not receive their alliance, but which appears alone, enables a man to enter boldly into the kingdom of heaven, hear Christ himself, who says, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Why? because they had raised the dead? Because they had cleansed lepers? because they had ejected devils ? No. But why? "Ye saw me hungry, he says, and ye fed me ; thirsty and ye gave me drink, naked and ye clothed me, a stranger and ye took me in." No where wonders; but every where conduct, Married men might be made bishops, provided they had not twice married. Chrys. in Epist. ad Titum. c. i. Hom. ii. tom. xii. Ρ. 630. (Editio ut supra.) He “If any one, he says, is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of riot or unruly.” Why does he introduce such a one? stops the mouths of heretics who abuse marriage, shewing that it is not a polluted thing, but so honourable, that with it a man may ascend the holy throne (of episcopacy*), and by this also correcting the wanton, and not suffering them to undertake this authority after a second marriage. CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS. A virtuous married man is more estimable than an anchorite. Stromatum, lib. vii. p. 741. Ρ. For he who has become perfect, has the Apostles as exemplars ; and in truth he is shewn to be a man by selecting the solitary life; but he surpasses men, who being strongly exercised by marriage and the procreation of children and household cares, uninfuenced by pleasure or sorrow, remains inseparable from the love of God, and 66 * A few lines before Chrysostom said upon the word και καταστησης, φησι, κατα πολιν πρεσβυτερους. Τους επισκόπους ενταυθα φησι καθώς αλλαχου ημιν ειρηται.” “And you shall appoint, he says, elders in every city." He there means bishops, as we have said elsewhere. δια τεκνων και γυναικος, οικαι κτηματων προσ κετων τε φερόμενης. resists all the temptation which proceeds from wife and children, and servants, and property. Continence is a gift.* Stromatum, lib. iii. p. 429. (Editio ut supra.) Ημεις ευνουχίαν μεν, και οις τουτο δεδωρηται υπο Θεου μακαρίζομεν. Μονογαμιαν δε και την περι τον ένα γαμον σεμνότητα θαυμάζομεν. σε But we deem continence, and those to whom this has been given by God blessed. And we admire monogamy and the sanctity which belongs to one marriage. The Romanists have a tradition, or rather pretend, that Peter separated from his wife, when he went forth as an apostle, and that our translation of the words in St. Paul's epistle a wife, a sister,” ought to be “ε a woman, a sister," and this accordingly is inserted at the end of the Douay Bible, among the mistranslations of the heretics. But Clemens had heard a tradition that Peter was present at his wife's execution. Clem. Alex. Stromatum, lib. vii. p. 736. (Editio ut supra.) Φασι γ' ουν τον μακαριον Πετρον, θεασαμενον την αυτού γυναικα αγομένην επι Τον θανατον, ησθηναι μεν της κλήσεως χαριν, και της εις οικον ανακομιδης. Επιφωνησαι δε εν μαλα προστρεπτικώς τε και παρακλητικώς εξ ονόματος προσείποντα. Μεμνησθω αυτη τω Κυρίου. Τοιουτος ην ο των They say, then, that the blessed Peter, when he beheld his wife conducted to death, was pleased on account of her calling and her return home;t and that he entreatingly and consolingly addressed her, saying, Remember the Lord. Such was the marriage of these blessed persons, and *This extract is inserted, because Romanists affirm that our translation in the New Testament which says "every man has his proper gift," 1 Cor. vii. is one of the mistranslations of the heretics, vide the end of the Douay Bible. + The Romanists may say that her return implied her former absence: at all events Clemens calls Peter's wife," γυναικα,” which vindicates our translation. In the next quotation he brings forward the very passage which the heretics are said to have purposely mistranslated. μακάριων γαμος, και η μέχρι their affection, perfect as that των φιλοτατων τελεια διαθεσις. of the most loving. The Apostles married. Clem. Alex. Strom. lib. iii. p. 449. (Parisiis, 1641.) Η και τους Αποστολους αποδοκιμάζουσι ; Πετρος μεν γαρ και Φίλιππος επαιδοποιησαντο. Φιλιππος δε και τας θυγατερας ανδρασιν εξεδωκεν. Και ογε Παυλος ουκ οκνει εν τινι επιστολη την αυτου προσαγορεύειν συζυγον, η ου περιεκόμιζεν, δια το της υπηρεσίας ευσταλες. Λέγει ουν εν τινι επιστολή, ουκ εχομεν εξουσιαν αδελφην, γυναικα περιάγειν, ως και οι λοιποι Αποστολοι; Clemens Alex. Miscellanies. Or do they disapprove also of the Apostles ? for Peter and Philip begat children, and Philip gave his daughters to husbands. And Paul too does not hesitate in a certain epistle to speak publicly of his wife, whom he did not carry about on account of the light equipment of his ministry. He says, therefore, in а certain epistle, have we not power to lead about a sister, а wife, like the other apostles ? Presbyters and deacons married in the days of the Apostles. Clem.* Alex. Strom. lib. iii. p. 464. (Editio ut supra.) Οθεν και ο αποστολος, βουλομαι, ουν, φησι, νεωτερας οικοδεσ πότειν, μηδεμιαν αφαρμην διδοναι τω αντικειμενω, λοιδοριας χαριν. Ηδη γαρ τινες εξετράπησαν οπισω του Σατανα. Ναι μεν και τον της μιας γυναικός ανδρα πανυ αποδέχεται, και πρεσβυτερος η, καν διάκονος, καν λαικος, ανεπιληπτως γαμω χρωμενος. γαμειν, τεκνογονειν, Whence the Apostle also says, "I will that the younger women marry, bear children, rule their houses, give no occasion to the adversary, for the sake of reproach. For some have already turned after Satan.” Moreover he every where receives the husband of one wife, who practises matrimony blamelessly, whether he be a presbyter, or deacon, · or layman. Clemens seems to have imbibed the notion, which was so general in the 4th century, respecting post-baptismal sins. Ιστέον μεν τοι, τους μετα μετα το λουτρον τοις αμαρτημασι περιπιπτοντας, τούτους είναι τους παιδευομένους. Τα μεν γαρ προενεργηθεντα, αφείθη. Τα επιγενομενα, εκκαθαίρεται. Lib. iv. also Lib. ii. Ελεημοσύναις και πιστεσι απο καθαιρονται αμαρτίαι. VOL. II. Y |