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| Chapter XVII.—The saints as examples of humility.
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Chapter XVII.—The saints as examples
of humility.
Let us be imitators also of those who in
goat-skins and sheep-skins72
went about
proclaiming the coming of Christ; I mean Elijah, Elisha, and Ezekiel
among the prophets, with those others to whom a like testimony is borne
[in Scripture]. Abraham was specially
honoured, and was called the friend of God; yet he, earnestly regarding
the glory of God, humbly declared, “I am but dust and
ashes.”73
Moreover, it is thus
written of Job, “Job was a righteous man, and blameless, truthful,
God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all evil.”74
But bringing an accusation
against himself, he
said, “No man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of
one day.”75
Moses was called faithful in all God’s
house;76
and
through his instrumentality, God punished Egypt77
| 77 Some fill up the lacuna which here
occurs in the ms. by
“Israel.” | with plagues and tortures. Yet he,
though thus greatly honoured, did not adopt lofty language, but said,
when the divine oracle came to him out of the bush, “Who am I, that
Thou sendest me? I am a man of a feeble voice and a slow
tongue.”78
And again he said, “I am but as the smoke of a
pot.”79
| 79 This is not
found in Scripture. [They were probably in Clement’s version. Comp.
Ps. cxix. 83.] | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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