{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080743.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080743.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080743.htm","text":"Chapter LVI.\u2014Teaching of Christ.\n\u201cAnd to those who think that He is not good, as the Scriptures say, He said, \u2018From which of you shall his son ask bread, and he will give him a stone; or shall ask a fish, and he will give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask Him, and to those who do His will!\u2019 1013 But to those who affirmed that He was in the temple, He said, \u2018Swear not by heaven, for it is God\u2019s throne; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet.\u2019 1014 And to those who supposed that God is pleased with sacrifices, He said, \u2018God wishes mercy, and not sacrifices\u2019 1015 \u2014the knowledge of Himself, and not holocausts.\nMatt. 5:34, 35.\n248:1015\nMatt. 9:13, Matt. 12:7. [Comp. Hos. vi. 6.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter LVI","type":"page"}