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95. That we are to live with the good, but to avoid the evil.

In Solomon, in the Proverbs: “Bring not the impious man into the habitation of the righteous.”[4573] Also in the same, in Ecclesiasticus: “Let righteous men be thy guests.”[4574] And again: “The faithful friend is a medicine of life and of immortality.”[4575] Also in the same place: “Be thou far from the man who has the power to slay, and thou shalt not suspect fear.”[4576] Also in the same place: “Blessed is he who findeth a true friend, and who speaketh righteousness to the listening ear.”[4577] Also in the same place: “Hedge thine ears with thorns, and hear not a wicked tongue.”[4578] Also in the seventeenth Psalm: “With the righteous Thou shalt be justified; and with the innocent man Thou shalt be innocent; and with the froward man Thou shalt be froward.”[4579] Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “Evil communications corrupt good dispositions.”[4580]

96. That we must labour not with words, but with deeds.

In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: “Be not hasty in thy tongue, and in thy deeds useless and remiss.”[4581] And Paul, in the first to the Corinthians: “The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.”[4582] Also to the Romans: “Not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.”[4583] Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: “He who shall do and teach so, shall be called greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”[4584] Also in the same place: “Every one who heareth my words, and doeth them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon a rock. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one who heareth my words, and doeth them not, I will liken him to the foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. The rain descended, the floods came, the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and its ruin became great.”[4585]

97. That we must hasten to faith and to attainment.

In Solomon, in Ecclesiasticus: “Delay not to be converted to God, and do not put off from day to day; for His anger cometh suddenly.”[4586]

98. That the catechumen ought now no longer to sin.[4587]

In the Epistle of Paul to the Romans: “Let us do evil until the good things come; whose condemnation is just.”[4588]

99. That judgment will be according to the times, either of equity before the law, or of law after Moses.

Paul to the Romans: “As many as have sinned without law, shall perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged also by the law.”[4589]

 

 

 

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