Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 66

Chapter LXVI.&#8212;Danger of Disobedience.

&#8220;And your work is to order what things are proper; and that of the brethren is to submit, and not to disobey.&#160; Therefore submitting they shall be saved, but disobeying they shall be punished by the Lord, because the president is entrusted with the place of Christ.&#160; Wherefore, indeed, honour or contempt shown to the president is handed on to Christ, and from Christ to God.&#160; And this I have said, that these brethren may not be ignorant of the danger they incur by disobedience to you, because whosoever disobeys your orders, disobeys Christ; and he who disobeys Christ offends God.