{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010041.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010041.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010041.htm","text":"This is the way, beloved, in which we find our Saviour, 153 even Jesus Christ, the High Priest of all our offerings, the defender and helper of our infirmity. By Him we look up to the heights of heaven. By Him we behold, as in a glass, His immaculate and most excellent visage. By Him are the eyes of our hearts opened. By Him our foolish and darkened understanding blossoms 154 up anew towards His marvellous light. By Him the Lord has willed that we should taste of immortal p. 15 knowledge, 155 \u201cwho, being the brightness of His majesty, is by so much greater than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.\u201d 156 For it is thus written, \u201cWho maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.\u201d 157 But concerning His Son 158 the Lord spoke thus: \u201cThou art my Son, to-day have I begotten Thee. Ask of Me, and I will give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.\u201d 159 And again He saith to Him, \u201cSit Thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.\u201d 160 But who are His enemies? All the wicked, and those who set themselves to oppose the will of God. 161\nLiterally, \u201cthat which saves us.\u201d\n14:154 15:155\nOr, \u201cknowledge of immortality.\u201d\n15:156 15:157 15:158 15:159 15:160 15:161\nSome read, \u201cwho oppose their own will to that of God.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: CLEMENT OF ROME: Chapter XXXVI.\u2014All blessings are...","type":"page"}