{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/009/0090227.htm","path":"chr/ecf/009/0090227.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/009/0090227.htm","text":"31. Christ as Teacher and Master.\nIt is plain to all how our Lord is a teacher and an interpreter for those who are striving towards godliness, and on the other hand a master of those servants who have the spirit of bondage to fear, 4602 who make progress and hasten towards wisdom, and are found worthy to possess it. For 4603 \u201cthe servant knoweth not what the master wills,\u201d since he is no longer his master, but has become his friend. The Lord Himself teaches this, for He says to hearers who were still servants: 4604 \u201cYou call Me Master and Lord, and you say well, for so I am,\u201d but in another passage, 4605 \u201cI call you no longer servants, for the servant knoweth not what is the will of his master, but I call you friends,\u201d because 4606 \u201cyou have continued with Me in all My temptations.\u201d They, then, who live according to fear, which God exacts from those who are not good servants, as we read in Malachi, 4607 \u201cIf I am a Master, where is My fear?\u201d are servants of a master who is called their Saviour.\nJohn xv. 15; \u03b8\u03ad\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9 for \u03c0\u03bf\u03c4\u03b5\u1fd6.\n314:4604 314:4605 314:4606 314:4607","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol IX: Epistle to Gregory and Orige...","type":"page"}