{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/001/0010653.htm","path":"chr/ecf/001/0010653.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/001/0010653.htm","text":"And that God is not appeased by the libations and incense of evil-doers, but awards vengeance in righteousness to each one, Philemon 2604 again shall bear testimony to me:\u2014\n\u201cIf any one should dream, O Pamphilus,\nBy sacrifice of bulls or goats\u2014nay, then,\nBy Jupiter\u2014of any such like things;\nOr by presenting gold or purple robes,\nOr images of ivory and gems;\nIf thus he thinks he may propitiate God,\nHe errs, and shows himself a silly one.\nBut let him rather useful be, and good,\nCommitting neither theft nor lustful deeds,\nNor murder foul, for earthly riches\u2019 sake.\nLet him of no man covet wife or child,\nHis splendid house, his wide-spread property,\nHis maiden, or his slave born ill his house,\nHis horses, or his cattle, or his beeves,\nNay, covet not a pin, O Pamphilus,\nFor God, close by you, sees whate\u2019er you do.\nHe ever with the wicked man is wroth,\nBut in the righteous takes a pleasure still,\nPermitting him to reap fruit of his toil,\nAnd to enjoy the bread his sweat has won.\nBut being righteous, see thou pay thy vows,\nAnd unto God the giver offer gifts.\nPlace thy adorning not in outward shows,\nBut in an inward purity of heart;\nHearing the thunder then, thou shall not fear,\nNor shall thou flee, O master, at its voice,\nFor thou art conscious of no evil deed,\nAnd God, close by you, sees whate\u2019er you do.\u201d\nAgain, Plato, in Tim\u00e6us, 2605 says: \u201cBut if any one on consideration should actually institute p. 292 a rigid inquiry, he would be ignorant of the distinction between the human and the divine nature; because God mingles many 2606 things up into one, [and again is able to dissolve one into many things,] seeing that He is endued with knowledge and power; but no man either is, or ever shall be, able to perform any of these.\u201d\nSome attribute these lines to Menander, others regard them as spurious.\n291:2605 292:2606\nThe mss. are corrupt here. They seem to read, and one actually does read, \u201call\u201d for \u201cmany.\u201d \u201cMany\u201d is in Plato, and the clause in brackets is taken from Plato to fill up the sense.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol I: JUSTIN MARTYR: Chapter IV.\u2014God desires not...","type":"page"}