{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080705.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080705.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080705.htm","text":"Chapter XVIII.\u2014Adam Not Ignorant.\n\u201cBe not deceived. Our father was ignorant of nothing; since, indeed, even the law publicly current, though charging him with the crime of ignorance for the sake of the unworthy, sends to him those desirous of knowledge, saying, \u2018Ask your father, and he will tell you; your elders, and they will declare to you.\u2019 960 This father, these elders ought to be inquired of. But you have not inquired whose is the time of the kingdom, and whose is the seat of prophecy, though He Himself points out Himself, saying, \u2018The p. 242 scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses\u2019 seat; all things whatsoever they say to you, hear them.\u2019 961 Hear them, He said, as entrusted with the key of the kingdom, which is knowledge, which alone can open the gate of life, through which alone is the entrance to eternal life. But truly, He says, they possess the key, but those wishing to enter they do not suffer to do so.\nMatt. 23:2, 3.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XVIII","type":"page"}