The apostle in his first Epistle to Timothy: "But if any take not care of his own, and especially of those of his own household, he denies the faith, and is worse than an infidel." [4535] Of this same thing in Isaiah: "If thou shalt see the naked, clothe him; and despise not those who are of the household of thine own seed." [4536] Of which members of the household it is said in the Gospel: "If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much rather them of his household!" [4537]
[4535] 1 Tim. v. 8.
[4536] Isa. lviii. 7.
[4537] Matt. x. 25.
76. That an elder must not be rashly accused.
In the first to Timothy: "Against an elder receive not an accusation."
[4538] 1 Tim. v. 19.
77. That the sinner must be publicly reproved.
In the first Epistle of Paul to Timothy: "Rebuke them that sin in the presence of all, that others also may be afraid." [4539]
[4539] 1 Tim. v. 20.
78. That we must not speak with heretics.
To Titus: "A man that is an heretic, after one rebuke avoid; knowing that one of such sort is perverted, and sinneth, and is by his own self condemned." [4540] Of this same thing in the Epistle of John: "They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would doubtless have remained with us." [4541] Also in the second to Timothy: "Their word doth creep as a canker." [4542]
[4540] Tit. iii. 10, 11.
[4541] 1 John ii. 19.
[4542] 2 Tim. ii. 17.
79. That innocency asks with confidence, and obtains.
In the Epistle of John: "If our heart blame us not, we have confidence towards God; and whatever we ask, we shall receive from Him." [4543] Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: "Blessed are they of a pure heart, for they shall see God." [4544] Also in the twenty-third Psalm: "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? The innocent in hands and of a pure heart." [4545]
[4543] 1 John ii. 21, 22.
[4544] Matt. v. 8.
[4545] Ps. xxiv. 3, 4.
80. That the devil has no power against man unless God have allowed it.
In the Gospel according to John: "Jesus said, Thou couldest have no power against me, unless it were given thee from above." [4546] Also in the third of Kings: "And God stirred up Satan against Solomon himself." [4547] Also in Job, first of all God permitted, and then it was allowed to the devil; and in the Gospel, the Lord first permitted, by saying to Judas, "What thou doest, do quickly." [4548] Also in Solomon, in the Proverbs: "The heart of the king is in God's hand."
[4546] John xix. 11.
[4547] 1 Kings xi. 23.
[4548] John xiii. 27.
[4549] Prov. xxi. 1.
81. That wages be quickly paid to the hireling.
In Leviticus: "The wages of thy hireling shall not sleep with thee until the morning." [4550]
[4550] Lev. xix. 13.
82. That divination must not be used.
In Deuteronomy: "Do not use omens nor auguries." [4551]
[4551] Deut. xviii. 10.
83. That a tuft of hair is not to be worn on the head.
In Leviticus: "Ye shall not make a tuft from the hair of your head."
[4552] Lev. xix. 27. [See p. 530, supra, the note and reference.]
84. That the beard must not be plucked.
"Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard." [4553]
[4553] Lev. xix. 27. [Compare Clement, vol. ii. p. 280, this series.]
85. That we must rise when a bishop or a presbyter comes.
In Leviticus: "Thou shalt rise up before the face of the elder, and shall honour the person of the presbyter." [4554]
[4554] Lev. xix. 32.
86. That a schism must not be made, even although he who withdraws should remain in one faith, and in the same tradition.
In Ecclesiasticus, in Solomon: "He that cleaveth firewood shall be endangered by it if the iron shall fall off." [4555] Also in Exodus: "In one house shall it be eaten: ye shall not cast forth the flesh abroad out of the house." [4556] Also in the cxxxiid Psalm: "Behold how good and how pleasant a thing it is that brethren should dwell in unity!" [4557] Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: "He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth." [4558] Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "But I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all say the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that ye be all joined together in the same mind and in the same opinion." [4559] Also in the sixty-seventh Psalm: "God, who maketh men to dwell with one mind in a house." [4560]
[4555] Eccles. x. 9.
[4556] Ex. xii. 4.
[4557] Ps. cxxxiii. 1.
[4558] Matt. xii. 30.
[4559] 1 Cor. i. 10.
[4560] Ps. lxviii. 6. [So Vulgate and Anglican Psalter.]
87. That believers ought to be simple, with prudence.
In the Gospel according to Matthew: "Be ye prudent as serpents, and simple as doves." [4561] And again: "Ye are the salt of the earth. But if the salt have lost his savour, in what shall it be salted? It is good for nothing, but to be cast out abroad, and to be trodden under foot of men." [4562]
[4561] Matt. x. 16.
[4562] Matt. v. 13.
88. That a brother must not be deceived.
In the first Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians: "That a man do not deceive his brother in a matter, because God is the avenger for all these." [4563]
[4563] 1 Thess. iv. 6.
89. That the end of the world comes suddenly.
The apostle says: "The day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night. When they shall say, Peace and security, then on them shall come sudden destruction." [4564] Also in the Acts of the Apostles: "No one can know the times or the seasons which the Father has placed in His own power." [4565]
[4564] 1 Thess. v. 2, 3.
[4565] Acts i. 7.
90. That a wife must not depart from her husband; or if she should depart, she must remain unmarried.
In the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "But to them that are married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not be separated from her husband; but if she should depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and that the husband should not put away his wife." [4566]
[4566] 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11.
91. That every one is tempted so much as he is able to bear.
In the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "No temptation shall take you, except such is human. But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
[4567] 1 Cor. x. 13.
92. That not everything is to be done which is lawful.
Paul, in the first Epistle to the Corinthians: "All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful, but all things edify not." [4568]
[4568] 1 Cor. x. 23.
93. That it was foretold that heresies would arise.
In the first epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "Heresies must needs be, in order that they which are approved may be made manifest among you." [4569]
[4569] 1 Cor. xi. 19.
94. That the Eucharist is to be received with fear and honour. [4570]
In Leviticus: "But whatever soul shall eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of salvation, which is the Lord's, and his uncleanness is still upon him, that soul shall perish from his people." [4571] Also in the first to the Corinthians: "Whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord." [4572]
[4570] [Note, not to be worshipped, but received.]
[4571] Lev. vii. 20.
[4572] 1 Cor. xi. 27.
95. That we are to live with the good, but to avoid the evil.
In Solomon, in the Proverbs: "Bring not the impious man into the habitation of the righteous." [4573] Also in the same, in Ecclesiasticus: "Let righteous men be thy guests." [4574] And again: "The faithful friend is a medicine of life and of immortality." [4575] Also in the same place: "Be thou far from the man who has the power to slay, and thou shalt not suspect fear." [4576] Also in the same place: "Blessed is he who findeth a true friend, and who speaketh righteousness to the listening ear." [4577] Also in the same place: "Hedge thine ears with thorns, and hear not a wicked tongue." [4578] Also in the seventeenth Psalm: "With the righteous Thou shalt be justified; and with the innocent man Thou shalt be innocent; and with the froward man Thou shalt be froward." [4579] Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: "Evil communications corrupt good dispositions." [4580]
[4573] Prov. xxiv. 15.
[4574] Ecclus. ix. 16.
[4575] Ecclus. vi. 16.
[4576] Ecclus. ix. 13.
[4577] Ecclus. xxv. 9.
[4578] Ecclus. xxviii. 24.
[4579] Ps. xviii. 25, 26.
[4580] 1 Cor. xv. 33.
96. That we must labour not with words, but with deeds.
In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: "Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds useless and remiss." [4581] And Paul, in the first to the Corinthians: "The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." [4582] Also to the Romans: "Not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." [4583] Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: "He who shall do and teach so, shall be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven." [4584] Also in the same place: "Every one who heareth my words, and doeth them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon a rock. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one who heareth my words, and doeth them not, I will liken him to the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and its ruin became great." [4585]
[4581] Ecclus. iv. 29.
[4582] 1 Cor. iv. 20.
[4583] Rom. ii. 13.
[4584] Matt. v. 19.
[4585] Matt. vii. 24-27.
97. That we must hasten to faith and to attainment.
In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: "Delay not to be converted to God, and do not put off from day to day; for His anger cometh suddenly." [4586]
[4586] Ecclus. v. 7.
98. That the catechumen ought now no longer to sin. [4587]
In the Epistle of Paul to the Romans: "Let us do evil until the good things come; whose condemnation is just." [4588]
[4587] [Converts preparing for baptism. Apostolical Constitutions, and Bunsen's Hippolytus, vol. iii. pp. 3-24.]
[4588] Rom. iii. 8.
99. That judgment will be according to the times, either of equity before the law, or of law after Moses.
Paul to the Romans: "As many as have sinned without law, shall perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged also by the law." [4589]
[4589] Rom. ii. 12.
100. That the grace of God ought to be without price.
In the Acts of the Apostles: "Thy money be in perdition with thyself, because thou hast thought that the grace of God is possessed by money." [4590] Also in the Gospel: "Freely ye have received, freely give." [4591] Also in the same place: "Ye have made my Father's house a house of merchandise; and ye have made the house of prayer a den of thieves." [4592] Also in Isaiah: "Ye who thirst, go to the water, and as many as have not money: go, and buy, and drink without money." [4593] Also in the Apocalypse: "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that thirsteth from the fountain of the water of life freely. He who shall overcome shall possess these things, and their inheritance; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." [4594]
[4590] Acts viii. 20.
[4591] Matt. x. 8.
[4592] Matt. xxi. 13. The latter clause of this quotation is omitted by the Oxford editor.
[4593] Isa. lv. 1.
[4594] Rev. xxi. 6, 7.
101. That the Holy Spirit has frequently appeared in fire.
In Exodus: "And the whole of Mount Sinai smoked, because God had come down upon it in fire." [4595] Also in the Acts of the Apostles: "And suddenly there was made a sound from heaven, as if a vehement blast were borne along, and it filled the whole of that place in which they were sitting. And there appeared to them cloven tongues as if of fire, which also settled upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." [4596] Also in the sacrifices, whatsoever God accounted accepted, fire descended from heaven, which consumed what was sacrificed. In Exodus: "The angel of the Lord appeared in a flame of fire from the bush." [4597]