{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050989.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050989.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050989.htm","text":"Chapter 5 [III.]\u2014Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected.\n\u201cThen,\u201d say they, \u201clet those who are over us only prescribe to us what we ought to do, and pray for us that we may do it; but let them not rebuke and censure us if we should not do it.\u201d Certainly let all be done, since the teachers of the churches, the apostles, were in the habit of doing all,\u2014as well prescribing what things should be done, as rebuking if they were not done, and praying that they might be done. The apostle prescribes, saying, \u201cLet all your things be done with love.\u201d 3255 He rebukes, saying, \u201cNow therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye have judgments among yourselves. For why do ye not rather suffer wrong? Why are ye not rather defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong and defraud; and that, your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not possess the kingdom of God?\u201d 3256 Let us hear him also praying: \u201cAnd the Lord,\u201d says he, \u201cmultiply you, and make you to abound in love one towards another and towards all men.\u201d 3257 He prescribes, that love should be maintained; he rebukes, because love is not maintained; he prays, that love may abound. O man! learn by his precept what you ought to have; learn by his rebuke that it is by your own fault that you have it not; learn by his prayer whence you may receive what you desire to have.\n1 Cor. vi. 7 et seq.\n473:3257","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on Reb...","type":"page"}