{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010020.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010020.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010020.htm","text":"Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, \u201cThis people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.\u201d 60 And again: \u201cThey bless with their mouth, but curse with their heart.\u201d 61 And again it saith, \u201cThey loved Him with their mouth, and lied to Him with their tongue; but their heart was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.\u201d 62 \u201cLet the deceitful lips become silent,\u201d 63 [and \u201clet the Lord destroy all the lying lips, 64 ] and the boastful tongue of those who have said, Let us magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, and for the sighing of the needy, will I now arise, saith the Lord: I will place him in safety; I will deal confidently with him.\u201d 65\nIsa. xxix. 13; Matt. xv. 8; Mark vii. 6.\n9:61 9:62 9:63 9:64\nThese words within brackets are not found in the ms., but have been inserted from the Septuagint by most editors.\n9:65","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: CLEMENT OF ROME: Chapter XV.\u2014We must adhere to those...","type":"page"}