{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090174.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090174.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090174.htm","text":"Chapter XII.\u2014We are Constantly to Look for the Kingdom of God.\nLet us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, \u201cWhen two shall be one, that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female.\u201d 4389 Now, two are one when we speak the truth one to another, and there is unfeignedly one soul in two bodies. And \u201cthat which is without as\u201d that which is within meaneth this: He calls the soul \u201cthat which is within,\u201d and the body \u201cthat which is without.\u201d As, then, thy body is visible to sight, so also let thy soul be manifest by good works. And \u201cthe male, with the female, neither male nor female,\u201d this 4390 He saith, that brother seeing sister may have no thought concerning her as female, and that she may have no thought concerning him as male. \u201cIf ye do these things,\u201d saith He, \u201cthe kingdom of my Father shall come.\u201d 4391\nThese words are quoted (Clem. Alex., Strom., iii. 9, 1.) from the Gospel according to the Egyptians, no longer extant.\n254:4390\nHere the piece formerly broke off. From this point to the end the text of Gebhardt, Harnack, Zahn has been followed.\n254:4391\nComp. 1 Cor. vii. 29.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: The Epistles of Clement.: Ch...","type":"page"}