Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 54

Chapter LIV.&#8212;Other Sayings.

&#8220;Whence it is impossible without His teaching to attain to saving truth, though one seek it for ever where the thing that is sought is not.&#160; But it was, and is, in the word of our Jesus.&#160; Accordingly, He, knowing the true things of the law, said to the Sadducees, asking on what account Moses permitted to marry seven, &#8216;Moses gave you commandments according to your hard-heartedness; for from the beginning it was not so:&#160; for He who created man at first, made him male and female.&#8217;