Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily IV/Chapter 14

Chapter XIV.&#8212;&#8220;Doctrine According to Godliness.&#8221;

&#8220;This doctrine, even if it also be mythical, being pious, would not be without advantage for this life.&#160; For every one, in expectation of being judged by the all-seeing God, receives the greater impulse towards virtue.&#160; But if the doctrine be also true, it withdraws him who has lived virtuously from eternal punishment, and endows him with eternal and unspeakable blessings from God.