{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010022.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010022.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010022.htm","text":"Let us be imitators also of those who in goat-skins and sheep-skins 72 went about proclaiming the coming of Christ; I mean Elijah, Elisha, and Ezekiel among the prophets, with those others to whom a like testimony is borne [in Scripture]. Abraham was specially honoured, and was called the friend of God; yet he, earnestly regarding the glory of God, humbly declared, \u201cI am but dust and ashes.\u201d 73 Moreover, it is thus written of Job, \u201cJob was a righteous man, and blameless, truthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil.\u201d 74 But bringing an accusation p. 10 against himself, he said, \u201cNo man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of one day.\u201d 75 Moses was called faithful in all God\u2019s house; 76 and through his instrumentality, God punished Egypt 77 with plagues and tortures. Yet he, though thus greatly honoured, did not adopt lofty language, but said, when the divine oracle came to him out of the bush, \u201cWho am I, that Thou sendest me? I am a man of a feeble voice and a slow tongue.\u201d 78 And again he said, \u201cI am but as the smoke of a pot.\u201d 79\nSome fill up the lacuna which here occurs in the ms. by \u201cIsrael.\u201d\n10:78 10:79\nThis is not found in Scripture. [They were probably in Clement\u2019s version. Comp. Ps. cxix. 83.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: CLEMENT OF ROME: Chapter XVII.\u2014The saints as examples...","type":"page"}