{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/002/0020333.htm","path":"chr/ecf/002/0020333.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/002/0020333.htm","text":"Such a fear, accordingly, leads to repentance and hope. Now hope is the expectation of good things, or an expectation sanguine of absent p. 357 good; and favourable circumstances are assumed in order to good hope, which we have learned leads on to love. Now love turns out to be consent in what pertains to reason, life, and manners, or in brief, fellowship in life, or it is the intensity of friendship and of affection, with right reason, in the enjoyment of associates. And an associate (\u1f11\u03c4\u03b1\u1fd6\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2) is another self; 2243 just as we call those, brethren, who are regenerated by the same word. And akin to love is hospitality, being a congenial art devoted to the treatment of strangers. And those are strangers, to whom the things of the world are strange. For we regard as worldly those, who hope in the earth and carnal lusts. \u201cBe not conformed,\u201d says the apostle, \u201cto this world: but be ye transformed in the renewal of the mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.\u201d 2244\nHospitality, therefore, is occupied in what is useful for strangers; and guests (\u1f10\u03c0\u03af\u03be\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9) are strangers (\u03be\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9); and friends are guests; and brethren are friends. \u201cDear brother,\u201d 2245 says Homer.\nPhilanthropy, in order to which also, is natural affection, being a loving treatment of men, and natural affection, which is a congenial habit exercised in the love of friends or domestics, follow in the train of love. And if the real man within us is the spiritual, philanthropy is brotherly love to those who participate, in the same spirit. Natural affection, on the other hand, is the preservation of good-will, or of affection; and affection is its perfect demonstration; 2246 and to be beloved is to please in behaviour, by drawing and attracting. And persons are brought to sameness by consent, which is the knowledge of the good things that are enjoyed in common. For community of sentiment (\u1f41\u03bc\u03bf\u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03bc\u03bf\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b7) is harmony of opinions (\u03c3\u03c5\u03bc\u03c6\u03c9\u03bd\u03af\u03b1 \u03b3\u03bd\u03c9\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd). \u201cLet your love be without dissimulation,\u201d it is said; \u201cand abhorring what is evil, let us become attached to what is good, to brotherly love,\u201d and so on, down to \u201cIf it be possible, as much as lieth in you, living peaceably with all men.\u201d Then \u201cbe not overcome of evil,\u201d it is said, \u201cbut overcome evil with good.\u201d 2247 And the same apostle owns that he bears witness to the Jews, \u201cthat they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of God\u2019s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.\u201d 2248 For they did not know and do the will of the law; but what they supposed, that they thought the law wished. And they did not believe the law as prophesying, but the bare word; and they followed through fear, not through disposition and faith. \u201cFor Christ is the end of the law for righteousness,\u201d 2249 who was prophesied by the law to every one that believeth. Whence it was said to them by Moses, \u201cI will provoke you to jealousy by them that are not a people; and I will anger you by a foolish nation, that is, by one that has become disposed to obedience.\u201d 2250 And by Isaiah it is said, \u201cI was found of them that sought Me not; I was made manifest to them that inquired not after Me,\u201d 2251 \u2014manifestly previous to the coming of the Lord; after which to Israel, the things prophesied, are now appropriately spoken: \u201cI have stretched out My hands all the day long to a disobedient and gainsaying people.\u201d Do you see the cause of the calling from among the nations, clearly declared, by the prophet, to be the disobedience and gainsaying of the people? Then the goodness of God is shown also in their case. For the apostle says, \u201cBut through their transgression salvation is come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy\u201d 2252 and to willingness to repent. And the Shepherd, speaking plainly of those who had fallen asleep, recognises certain righteous among Gentiles and Jews, not only before the appearance of Christ, but before the law, in virtue of acceptance before God,\u2014as Abel, as Noah, as any other righteous man. He says accordingly, \u201cthat the apostles and teachers, who had preached the name of the Son of God, and had fallen asleep, in power and by faith, preached to those that had fallen asleep before\u201d Then he subjoins: \u201cAnd they gave them the seal of preaching. They descended, therefore, with them into the water, and again ascended. But these descended alive, and again ascended alive. But those, who had fallen asleep before, descended dead, but ascended alive. By these, therefore, they were made alive, and knew the name of the Son of God. Wherefore also they ascended with them, and fitted into the structure of the tower, and unhewn were built up together; they fell asleep in righteousness and in great purity, but wanted only this seal.\u201d 2253 \u201cFor when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves,\u201d 2254 according to the apostle.\nAs, then, the virtues follow one another, why need I say what has been demonstrated already, that faith hopes through repentance, and fear through faith; and patience and practice in these along with learning terminate in love, p. 358 which is perfected by knowledge? But that is necessarily to be noticed, that the Divine alone is to be regarded as naturally wise. Therefore also wisdom, which has taught the truth, is the power of God; and in it the perfection of knowledge is embraced. The philosopher loves and likes the truth, being now considered as a friend, on account of his love, from his being a true servant. The beginning of knowledge is wondering at objects, as Plato says is in his The\u00e6tetus; and Matthew exhorting in the Traditions, says, \u201cWonder at what is before you;\u201d laying this down first as the foundation of further knowledge. So also in the Gospel to the Hebrews it is written, \u201cHe that wonders shall reign, and he that has reigned shall rest. It is impossible, therefore, for an ignorant man, while he remains ignorant, to philosophize, not having apprehended the idea of wisdom; since philosophy is an effort to grasp that which truly is, and the studies that conduce thereto. And it is not the rendering of one 2255 accomplished in good habits of conduct, but the knowing how we are to use and act and labour, according as one is assimilated to God. I mean God the Saviour, by serving the God of the universe through the High Priest, the Word, by whom what is in truth good and right is beheld. Piety is conduct suitable and corresponding to God.\n\u1f11\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f10\u03b3\u03ce, alter ego, deriving \u1f11\u03c4\u03b1\u1fd6\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 from \u1f15\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2.\n357:2244 357:2245\n\u03c6\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5 \u03ba\u03b1\u03c3\u1f30\u03b3\u03bd\u03b7\u03c4\u03b5, Iliad, v. 359.\n357:2246\n\u1f00\u03c0\u03cc\u03b4\u03b5\u03be\u03b9\u03c2 has been conjectured in place of \u1f00\u03c0\u03cc\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03be\u03b9\u03c2.\n357:2247 357:2248 357:2249 357:2250 357:2251 357:2252 357:2253\nHermas, [Similitudes, p. 49, supra.]\n357:2254 358:2255\nThis clause is hopelessly corrupt; the text is utterly unintelligible, and the emendation of Sylburgius is adopted in the translation.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Chapter IX.\u2014The Connection of the Christian Virtues.","type":"page"}