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160292Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, Pseudo-Clementine Literature, The Clementine Homilies, Homily III — Chapter 70Thomas Smith (1817-1906)Anonymous

Chapter LXX.—“Hear the Bishop.”

“However, hear your bishop, and do not weary of giving all honour to him; knowing that, by showing it to him, it is borne to Christ, and from Christ it is borne to God; and to him who offers it, is requited manifold.[1]  Honour, therefore, the throne of Christ.  For you are commanded even to honour the chair of Moses, and that although they who occupy it are accounted sinners.[2]  And now I have said enough to you; and I deem it superfluous to say to him how he is to live unblameably, since he is an approved disciple of Him who taught me also.


Footnotes[edit]

  1. ↑ There are several conjectural readings of this sentence.  We have not exactly followed anyone of them, but have ventured on a conjecture of our own.
  2. ↑ Matt. xxiii. 2, 3.
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