Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily VIII/Chapter 6

Chapter VI.&#8212;Concealment and Revelation.

&#8220;For on this account Jesus is concealed from the Jews, who have taken Moses as their teacher, and Moses is hidden from those who have believed Jesus.&#160; For, there being one teaching by both, God accepts him who has believed either of these.&#160; But believing a teacher is for the sake of doing the things spoken by God.&#160; And that this is so our Lord Himself says, &#8216;I thank thee, Father of heaven and earth, because Thou hast concealed these things from the wise and elder, and hast revealed them to sucking babes.&#8217; &#160; Thus God Himself has concealed a teacher from some, as foreknowing what they ought to do, and has revealed him to others, who are ignorant what they ought to do.