{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090143.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090143.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090143.htm","text":"Chapter XLVIII.\u2014Let Us Return to the Practice of Brotherly Love.\nLet us therefore, with all haste, put an end 4261 to this [state of things]; and let us fall down before the Lord, and beseech Him with tears, that He would mercifully 4262 be reconciled to us, and restore us to our former seemly and holy practice of brotherly love. For [such conduct] is the gate of righteousness, which is set open for the attainment of life, as it is written, \u201cOpen to me the gates of righteousness; I will go in by them, and will praise the Lord: this is the gate of the p. 244 Lord: the righteous shall enter in by it.\u201d 4263 Although, therefore, many gates have been set open, yet this gate of righteousness is that gate in Christ by which blessed are all they that have entered in and have directed their way in holiness and righteousness, doing all things without disorder. Let a man be faithful: let him be powerful in the utterance of knowledge; let him be wise in judging of words; let him be pure in all his deeds; yet the more he seems to be superior to others [in these respects], the more humble-minded ought he to be, and to seek the common good of all, and not merely his own advantage.\nLiterally, \u201cbecoming merciful.\u201d\n244:4263","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: The Epistles of Clement.: Chapter XLVIII","type":"page"}