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MANUSCRIPTS AND VERSIONS. 97
Stand up then in the truth as a stroig man who is smitten ; for
it is
the part of an athlete to be smitten and to conquer. But especially for
God's sake it behoveth tis to endure rjerything, as He also did {Polyc. 3).
Toil together with one another, struggle together with one another, suffer
together with one another, as stewards of God and children of His house
and His ministers. Be pleasing^ unto Him and serve Him, fi-oiti
whom ye
shall receive' pay. Let none of you rebel (or desert); and let faith abide
with you as a weapon^ and hope as a helmet, and love as a spear, and patience
as all armour. And let
your works be good, that ye may receive the
gift of God as is fitting. Be ye long-suffering toivard one another, as God
is toward you. I rejoice at all times when these things and such as these
are yours {Polyc. 6).
There is
nought that is better than peace, whereby are abolished the wars
of those in heaven atid on earth ; whereof nothing escapeth you, if ye have
Jesus Christ completely, the faith and love which is the beginning and the
end. At the begimiing then He bindeth faith ; the end is love. When the
two of them become one in union, it is God, and all other things become in
harinony 7vith those things that are good and fair. There is no man who
prof esseth faith and sijineth, nor tvho possesseth love and hateth. The tree
is known by its fruit {Ephes. 13, 14).
This is better, that a man should be silent when he is somethitig, rather
than that he should be speaking when he is nothing. It is
good that he
should teach, if he practiseth what he saith. There is then 07ie teacher. He
that saith and it is, and though silent doeth the things that are nwrthy of
His Father {Ephes. 15).
Forget not, tny brethren, that those who corrupt^ houses shall not inherit
the kingdom of God. If then those who do these* carnal things die,
ho7v much more those who corrupt with false doctrines the true faith^, for
the sake of which Jesus Christ 7vas crucified {Ephes. 16).
All ofyou therefore take to yourselves the likeness of the unity of God ;
and be ye ashamed ofie before atiother ; and let not one of you look oi his
fellow after the flesh, but be with one another at all times in Jesus Christ
{Magn. 6).
But these things which I write unto you, ny beloved, it is not because
I knozv that there are itien
among you who are so vwided. As one who
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