{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0081115.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0081115.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0081115.htm","text":"Chapter XX.\u2014Some Parts of the Old Testament Written to Try Us.\n\u201cBut one might with good reason maintain that it was with reference to those who thought Him to be such that the statement was made, \u2018No one knoweth the Father but the Son, as no one knoweth even the Son, but the Father.\u2019 And reasonably. For if they had known, they would not have sinned, by trusting to the books written against God, really for the purpose of trying. But somewhere also He says, wishing to exhibit the cause of their error more distinctly to them, \u2018On this account ye do err, not knowing the true things of the Scriptures, on which account ye are ignorant also of the power of God.\u2019 1399 Wherefore every man who wishes to be saved must become, as the Teacher said, a judge of the books written to try us. For thus He spake: \u2018Become experienced bankers.\u2019 Now the need of bankers arises from the circumstance that the spurious is mixed up with the genuine.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literature.: Chapter XX","type":"page"}