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

Chapter VI.&#8212;Restoration of the Divine Image.

&#8220;Therefore approach with confidence to God, you who at first were made to be rulers and lords of all things:&#160; ye who have His image in your bodies, have in like manner the likeness of His judgment in your minds.&#160; Since, then, by acting like irrational animals, you have lost the soul of man from your soul, becoming like swine, you are the prey of demons.&#160; If, therefore, you receive the law of God, you become men.&#160; For it cannot be said to irrational animals, &#8216;Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal,&#8217; and so forth.&#160; Therefore do not refuse, when invited, to return to your first nobility; for it is possible, if ye be conformed to God by good works.&#160; And being accounted to be sons by reason of your likeness to Him, you shall be reinstated as lords of all.