Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 55

Chapter LV.&#8212;Teaching of Christ.

&#8220;But to those who think, as the Scriptures teach, that God swears, He said, &#8216;Let your yea be yea, and nay, nay; for what is more than these is of the evil one.&#8217; &#160; And to those who say that Abraham and Isaac and Jacob are dead, He said, &#8216;God is not of the dead, but of the living.&#8217; &#160; And to those who suppose that God tempts, as the Scriptures say, He said, &#8216;The tempter is the wicked one,&#8217; who also tempted Himself.&#160; To those who suppose that God does not foreknow, He said, &#8216;For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye need all these things before ye ask Him.&#8217; &#160; And to those who believe, as the Scriptures say, that He does not see all things, He said, &#8216;Pray in secret, and your Father, who seeth secret things, will reward you.&#8217;