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THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.
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the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, "When two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female."[1] Now, two are one when we speak the truth one to another, and there is unfeignedly one soul in two bodies. And "that which is without as that which is within" meaneth this: He calls the soul "that which is within," and the body "that which is without." As, then, thy body is visible to sight, so also let thy soul be manifest by good works. And the male with the female, neither male nor female, this"[2] …
- ↑ These words are quoted (Clem. Alex. Strom. iii. 9, 13) from the Gospel according to the Egyptians, no longer extant.
- ↑ Thus ends the MS., but what followed will be found in Clem. Alex. as just cited.
