7. "Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred," quoted as the words of Christ by Barnabas {Epist. Ca- thulica. 4) ; and ibid. 7 we read, " They Avho wish to see me and lay hold of mj' kingdom must receive me by affliction and suftering."
8. " If only one of Israel will repent, and believe in God through my name, his sins shall be forgiven. Af- ter twelve years go ye into the world, lest one should say. We have not heard." In Clem. Alex. {Strom, [ed. Pott], vi, 762), Peter quotes these words as those of the Lord, and Eusebius {Hist. Eccl. v, 18) mentions this command of Christ, tTrl SwSeKu iTtai fit) ■)(ijjptaSiT]vai Tr]Q 'l(pov(yaXi)i.i.
9. " The Lord said, Should you be with me gathered in my bosom, and not do my commandments, I will cast you oif, and say to you. Go from me, I know you not whence you are, workers of iniquity." This we read in Clem. Rom. {Epist. ad Corinth, ii, 4). In the same epis- tle (5), we read,
10. "The Lord saith. Ye shall be lambs in the midst of wolves. But Peter answered him. What, then, should the wolves tear in pieces the lambs? Jesus said to Pe- ter, Let not the lambs fear the wolves after they are dead; and do you fear not those who kill j-ou and can do nothing to you ; but fear him who after you are dead hath power over soul and body to cast them into hell- fire." While there is some resemblance in this narra- tive with Matt. X, 16, 28 ; Luke xii, 4, 5, yet the whole manner of this conversation betrays too mucli its apoc- ryphal origin.
11. " Keep the flesh pure aijd the soul unspotted, that j'e may receive («7ro\f(/3(jrf ; not as some read, cnroXa- fSoj/^tti', " that we may receive") eternal life" {Epist. 8),
12. " Our Lord Jesus Christ said, In whatsoever I may find j'ou, in this will I also judge you." This saying, which is found in Justin. Mart. {Diul. c. Tryj)h. [ed. Maran.J, p. 143), is ascribed by Clem. Alex. {Quis Dives Salvetur, § 40) to (Jod; by Johannes Climacus (in Scala Paradisi, vii, p. 159, and in the I'ita B. Antonii, c. 15, in Vitm Patrum, p. 41) to the prophet Ezekiel (comp. Ezek. vii, 3, 8 ; xviii, 30 , xxiv, 14 ; xxxiii, 20, with Fabri- cius, Cod. Apocr. i, 333). A comparison of the passages in Ezekiel will, however, prove that these parallels are insufficient, and some apocryphal gospel is probably the authority for this saying.
13. " The days will come in which vines shall spring up, each having ten thousand stocks, and on each stock ten thousand branches, and on each branch ten thousaiul shoots, and on each shoot ten thousand bunches, and on each bunch ten thousand grapes, and each grape when pressed shall give five -and -twenty measures of wine. And when any saint shall have seized one btuicli, an- other shall cry, I am a better binich ; take me ; througli me bless the Lord. Likewise also he said that a grain
of wheat shall produce ten thousand ears of corn, and each grain of wheat shall produce ten pounds of fine pure flour; and so all other fruits and seeds and each herb according to its proper nature. And that all ani- mals, using for food what is received from the earth, shall live in peace and concord with one another, subject to men with all subjection. And when Judas the traitor believed not, and asked, How, then, shall such produc- tions proceed from the Lord V the Lord said, They shall see who shall come to these times." This narrative of the millennium Irenwus {Adv. Hwres.\,ii'i) describes as delivered by John to Papias. Since, however, this tra- dition belongs to Papias, whom Eusebius {Hist. Eccl. iii, 39) describes as an dv^pa apiKpov riv vovv, we must deny from the very beginning the authority of Christ as having uttered these words. Besides, the whole tenor of this narrative so conflicts with the dignity contained in all the words of Christ, that, without the least shadow of a doubt, we can ascribe to it an apocryphal origin. The description of the millennium reminds us of the Kabbinic representations of the same, especially as we find it in the .Jalkvt Shimoni (fol. 7, col. 1, No. 20), and which is too trivial to be translated. A German trans- lation is given by Eisenmenger {Enldecktes Judenthum, ii, 309 sq.). An examination of the Koran (sur. 18,32; 37, 49 ; 38, 53 ; 56, 38, etc.) will also show that the Mo- hammedan representation of Paradise is less sensual than that given above from a Christian source.
14. Pseudo-Linus {De Pussione Petri ; comp. Fabrici- us, Cod. Apocr. N. T. i, 335, 775) quotes a mystical saj'- ing of the Lord: "Unless ye turn your right into the left and the left into the right, and that which is above into that which is below, and that which is before j'Ou into that which is behind, ye will not know the king- dom of God."
15. " The Lord being asked by Salome when his king- dom will come, said. When the two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female neither male nor female." This quotation, which is found by Clem. Pom. {Epist. ad Co- rinth. 12), is, according to Clem. Alex. {Strom, [ed. Pott], iii, 553), taken from the Gospel of the Egyptians. From the same gospel, Clem. {ibid. p. 532) has preserved the following conversation of Christ with Salome :