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 2. Wherein I find you, there will I judge you.

Quoted by Justin Martyr (Dialogue with Trypho, 47), by Clement of Alexandria, and by many others; one writer attributes it to the prophet Ezekiel.

3. Ask ye for the greater things, and the small shall be added unto you: and ask for the heavenly things, and the earthly shall be added unto you.

Origen (on prayer, 2) quotes both parts of this saying; Clement of Alexandria (Strom. i. 24. 158) the first part only.

4. Be ye approved (or tried) money-changers (bankers).

Quoted by Clement of Alexandria (Strom. i. 28. 177) and many others. Paul’s words in 1 Thess. v. 21, ‘Prove all things, hold fast that which is good’, are really a comment on the saying, and show its meaning.

5. The ‘Second Epistle of Clement’, v. 2–4 has: For the Lord saith: Ye shall be as lambs in the midst of wolves. And Peter answering saith unto him: If then the wolves tear the lambs in pieces? Jesus said unto Peter: Let not the lambs fear the wolves, after they are dead. And do not ye fear them that kill you, and can do nothing unto you, but fear him who, after ye are dead, hath power over soul and body, to cast them into the hell of fire.

6., Excerpts from Theodotus, 2: As the Valentinians say ... on this account the Saviour saith: Be thou saved (or Save thyself, thou) and thy soul.

7. on Baptism, 20. The disciples were tempted because they fell asleep, so that they forsook the Lord when he was taken, and even he who abode with him and used the sword, so that he even denied thrice: for the saying had gone before, that: No man that is not tempted shall obtain the kingdom of heaven.

Didascalia, ii. 8. The scripture saith: A man that is not tempted is not approved.

8. on Jeremiah, hom. 3. 3 (Latin). I have read somewhere that the Saviour said—and I question whether some one has assumed the person of the Saviour, or called the words to memory, or whether it be true that is said—but at any rate the Saviour himself says: He that is near me is near the fire. He that is far from me is far from the kingdom.

on Ps. lxxxviii. 8, quotes the same in Greek.

9. In the Apostolic Church Order is this curious passage. Peter said: We have gone too fast in making ordinances: let us signify accurately concerning the offering of the body and the blood.

John said: Ye have forgotten, brethren, when the Teacher asked for the bread and the cup, and blessed them, saying: This is my body and my blood, that he permitted not these women to be (stand) with us. Martha said: It was because of