Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 62

Chapter LXII.&#8212;Obedience Leads to Peace.

&#8220;But, further, let the things that are happening before your eyes persuade you; how wars are constantly arising through there being now many kings all over the earth.&#160; For each one holds the government of another as a pretext for war.&#160; But if one were universal superior, he, having no reason why he should make war, would have perpetual peace.&#160; In short, therefore, to those who are thought worthy of eternal life, God appoints one universal King in the world that shall then be, that by means of monarchy there may be unfailing peace.&#160; It behoves all, therefore, to follow some one as a leader, honouring him as the image of God; and it behoves the leader to be acquainted with the road that entereth into the holy city.