Chapter 12

L1et 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, “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.” 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”....

2Footnote 259:

3No title, not even a letter, is preserved in the MS.

4Footnote 260:

5Literally, “holy things.”

6Footnote 261:

7Comp. Ps. cxvi. 12.

8Footnote 262:

9Literally, “lame.”

10Footnote 263:

11Literally, “of men.”

12Footnote 264:

13Literally, “being full of such darkness in our sight.”

14Footnote 265:

15Literally, “having beheld in us much error and destruction.”

16Footnote 266:

17Comp. Hos. ii. 23; Rom. iv. 17, ix. 25.

18Footnote 267:

19Literally, “willed us from not being to be.”

20Footnote 268:

21Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.

22Footnote 269:

23Some render, “should not cry out, like women in travail.” The text is doubtful.

24Footnote 270:

25It has been remarked that the writer here implies he was a Gentile.

26Footnote 271:

27Matt. ix. 13; Luke v. 32.

28Footnote 272:

29Comp. Matt. xviii. 11.

30Footnote 273:

31Literally, “already perishing.”

32Footnote 274:

33Literally, “what is the knowledge which is towards Him.”

34Footnote 275:

35Matt. x. 32.

36Footnote 276:

37Comp. Matt. xxii. 37.

38Footnote 277:

39Isa. xxix. 13.

40Footnote 278:

41Matt. vii. 21, loosely quoted.

42Footnote 279:

43Some read, “God.”

44Footnote 280:

45Or, “with me.”

46Footnote 281:

47The first part of this sentence is not found in Scripture; for the second, comp. Matt. vii. 23, Luke xiii. 27.

48Footnote 282:

49Matt. x. 16.

50Footnote 283:

51No such conversation is recorded in Scripture.

52Footnote 284:

53Or, “Let not the lambs fear.”

54Footnote 285:

55Matt. x. 28; Luke xii. 4, 5.

56Footnote 286:

57Or, “know.”

58Footnote 287:

59The text and translation are here doubtful.

60Footnote 288:

61Matt. vi. 24; Luke xvi. 13.

62Footnote 289:

63Matt. xvi. 26.

64Footnote 290:

65Literally, “speaks of.”

66Footnote 291:

67Or, “enjoy.”

68Footnote 292:

69The MS. has, “we reckon.”

70Footnote 293:

71Ezek. xiv. 14, 20.

72Footnote 294:

73Literally, “with what confidence shall we.”

74Footnote 295:

75Wake translates “kingdom,” as if the reading had been βασιλείαν; but the MS. has βασίλειον, “palace.”

76Footnote 296:

77Literally, “that many set sail for corruptible contests,” referring probably to the concourse at the Isthmian games.

78Footnote 297:

79Or, “Let us place before us.”

80Footnote 298:

81Or, “set sail.”

82Footnote 299:

83Literally, “know.”

84Footnote 300:

85Literally, “if he be found corrupting.”

86Footnote 301:

87Baptism is probably meant.

88Footnote 302:

89Isa. lxvi. 24.

90Footnote 303:

91Comp. Luke xvi. 10-12.

92Footnote 304:

93MS. has “we,” which is corrected by all editors as above.

94Footnote 305:

95Some have thought this a quotation from an unknown apocryphal book, but it seems rather an explanation of the preceding words.

96Footnote 306:

97Literally, “looked up.”

98Footnote 307:

99The MS. has εἷς, “one,” which Wake follows, but it seems clearly a mistake for ὡς.

100Footnote 308:

101Matt. xii. 50.

102Footnote 309:

103Literally, “rather.”

104Footnote 310:

105Literally, “malice, as it were, the precursor of our sins.” Some deem the text corrupt.

106Footnote 311:

107Literally, according to the MS., “it is not possible that a man should find it who are”—the passage being evidently corrupt.

108Footnote 312:

109The same words occur in Clement’s first epistle, chap. xxiii.

110Footnote 313:

1111 Cor. ii. 9.

112Footnote 314:

113These words are quoted (Clem. Alex. Strom. iii. 9, 13) from the Gospel according to the Egyptians, no longer extant.

114Footnote 315:

115Thus ends the MS., but what followed will be found in Clem. Alex. as just cited.