{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081045.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081045.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081045.htm","text":"Chapter V.\u2014Difference Between the True Religion and Philosophy.\nAnd our father began to say: \u201cDo not suppose, my dearest Peter, that I am not thinking of the doctrines preached by you. I was thinking of them. But during the past night, when Clement urged me earnestly to give in my adhesion to the truth preached by you, I at last answered, \u2018Why should I? for what new commandment can any one give more than what the ancients urged us to obey?\u2019 And he, with a gentle smile, said, \u2018There is a great difference, father, between the doctrines of the true religion and those of philosophy; 1229 for the true religion receives its proof from prophecy, while philosop. 310 phy, furnishing us with beautiful sentences, seems to present its proofs from conjecture.\u2019 On saying this, he took an instance, and set before us the doctrine of philanthropy, 1230 which you had explained to him, 1231 which rather appeared to me to be very unjust, and I shall tell you how. He alleged that it was right to present to him who strikes you on the one cheek the other 1232 also, and to give to him who takes away your cloak your tunic also, and to go two miles with him who compels you to go one, and such like.\u201d 1233\n[Compare the fuller statement in Recognitions, viii. 61; also Recognitions, x. 48\u201351.\u2014R.]\n310:1230\nOr \u201clove of man\u201d in all its phases\u2014kindliness, gentleness, humanity, etc.\n310:1231 310:1232\nMatt. 5:39, Luke 6:29. The writer of the Homilies changes the word \u03c7\u03b9\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd\u03b1, \u201ctunic,\u201d of the New Testament into \u03bc\u03b1\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd, which Suicer describes \u201ca covering for the head, neck, and shoulders, used by women.\u201d Wieseler is in doubt whether the writer of the Homilies uses \u03bc\u03b1\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd as equivalent to \u03c7\u03b9\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd\u03b1, or whether he intentionally changed the word, for the person who lost both cloak and tunic would be naked altogether; and this, the writer may have imagined, Christ would not have commanded.\n310:1233\n[The larger part of the discussion in chaps. 5\u201311 is peculiar to the Homilies. There is little matter in it found in the longer arguments of Recognitions.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter V","type":"page"}