Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily X/Chapter 4

Chapter IV.&#8212;Faith and Duty.

&#8220;While, therefore, he was righteous, he was also superior to all sufferings, as being unable by his immortal body to have any experience of pain; but when he sinned, as I showed you yesterday and the day before, becoming as it were the servant of sin, he became subject to all sufferings, being by a righteous judgment deprived of all excellent things.&#160; For it was not reasonable, the Giver having been forsaken, that the gifts should remain with the ungrateful.&#160; Whence, of His abundant mercy, in order to our receiving, with the first, also future blessings, He sent His Prophet.&#160; And the Prophet has given in charge to us to tell you what you ought to think, and what to do.&#160; Choose, therefore; and this is in your power.&#160; What, therefore, you ought to think is this, to worship the God who made all things; whom if you receive in your minds, you shall receive from Him, along with the first excellent things, also the future eternal blessings.