Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily III/Chapter 72

Chapter LXXII.&#8212;Ordination.

And having thus spoken, he placed his hand upon Zacch&#230;us, saying, &#8220;O Thou Ruler and Lord of all, Father and God, do Thou guard the shepherd with the flock.&#160; Thou art the cause, Thou the power.&#160; We are that which is helped; Thou the helper, the physician, the saviour, the wall, the life, the hope, the refuge, the joy, the expectation, the rest.&#160; In a word, Thou art all things to us.&#160; In order to the eternal attainment of salvation, do Thou co-operate, preserve, protect.&#160; Thou canst do all things.&#160; For Thou art the Ruler of rulers, the Lord of lords, the Governor of kings.&#160; Do Thou give power to the president to loose what ought to be loosed, to bind what ought to be bound.&#160; Do Thou make him wise.&#160; Do Thou, as by His name, protect the Church of Thy Christ as a fair bride.&#160; For Thine is eternal glory.&#160; Praise to the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to all ages.&#160; Amen.&#8221;