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DOCTRINE OF THE LORD. 11 they fully believed in the scriptural and apostolic doctrine, that “God was in Christ,” and that “ in Him dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.”

CLEMENT OF ROME-90–100 of THE CHRIS- TIAN ERA.

Clement of Rome addresses a doxology to Christ. In another place he says: “Through Him we fix our glance on the heights of the heavens, through Him we behold His (the divine) spotless and lofty coun- tenance as in a mirror: through Him are the eyes of our heart opened; through Him it is the will of the Lord that we should taste immortal glory — Him who, being the radiance of the divine glory, is as much exalted above the angels as He hath obtained a more excellent name than they.”

In what is usually denominated Clement's 2d Epistle to the Corinthians, though perhaps not genuine, but at least a writing of very high an- tiquity, the writer says: “My brethren, we must think of Jesus Christ as of God, as of the Judge of the living and of the dead, and not think little of our own salvation. For if our thoughts of Him be low, our expectations will also be little. If we esteem Him lightly, and act as we think, we sin, and are unmindful whence we have been called, and by whom, and to what, and how much Jesus Christ hath endured on our behalf.. . . We had no hope of salvation but from Him. . . . He will