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2 Clement
2 Clement — J. B. Lightfoot 1891 English translation
Unverified edition · Chapter 12
Reading language: eng · Original language (catalog): Ancient source language(s)
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2 Clement 12:1
Let us therefore await the kingdom of God betimes in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of God's appearing.
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2 Clement 12:2
For the Lord Himself, being asked by a certain person when his kingdom would come, said, When the two shall be one, and the outside as the inside, and the male with the female, neither male or female.
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2 Clement 12:3
Now the two are one, when we speak truth among ourselves, and in two bodies there shall be one soul without dissimulation.
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2 Clement 12:4
And by the outside as the inside He meaneth this: by the inside he meaneth the soul and by the outside the body. Therefore in like manner as thy body appeareth, so also let thy soul be manifest by its good works.
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2 Clement 12:5
And by the male with the female, neither male nor female, he meaneth this; that a brother seeing a sister should have no thought of her as a female, and that a sister seeing a brother should not have any thought of him as a male.
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2 Clement 12:6
These things if ye do, saith He, the kingdom of my father shall come.
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