{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090110.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090110.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090110.htm","text":"Chapter XV.\u2014We Must Adhere to Those Who Cultivate Peace, Not to Those Who Merely Pretend to Do So.\nLet us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, \u201cThis people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.\u201d 4066 And again: \u201cThey bless with their mouth, but curse with their heart.\u201d 4067 And again it saith, \u201cThey loved Him with their month, and lied 4068 to Him with their tongue; but their heart was not right with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.\u201d 4069 \u201cLet the deceitful lips become silent, 4070 [and \u201clet the Lord destroy all the lying lips, 4071 ] and the boastful tongue of those who have said, Let us magnify our tongue: our lips are our own; who is lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, and for the sighing of the needy, will I now arise, saith the Lord: I will place him in safety; I will deal confidently with him.\u201d 4072\nIsa. 29:13, Matt. 15:8, Mark 7:6.\n233:4067 233:4068 233:4069 233:4070 233:4071\nThese words within brackets are not found in the ms., but have been inserted from the Septuagint by most editors.\n233:4072","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: The Epistles of Clement.: Ch...","type":"page"}