Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily IV/Chapter 17

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Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, Pseudo-Clementine Literature, The Clementine Homilies, Homily IV
Anonymous, translated by Thomas Smith
Chapter 17
160313Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VIII, Pseudo-Clementine Literature, The Clementine Homilies, Homily IV — Chapter 17Thomas Smith (1817-1906)Anonymous

Chapter XVII.—“Their Makers are Like Unto Them.”

“You will hold it reasonable for ignorant men to be moderately indignant at these fancies.  But what must we say to the learned, some of whom, professing themselves to be grammarians and sophists, affirm that these acts are worthy of gods?  For, being themselves incontinent, they lay hold of this mythical pretext; and as imitators of the gods,[1] they practise unseemly things with freedom.


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  1. Lit. “of those who are superior or better.”