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Chapter LXI.
Not to participation in mysteries, then,
and to fellowship in the wisdom hidden in a mystery, which God
ordained before the world to the glory of His saints,3616
do we invite the wicked man, and the
thief, and the housebreaker, and the poisoner, and
the committer of sacrilege, and the plunderer of the
dead, and all those others whom Celsus may enumerate in his
exaggerating style, but such as these we invite to be
healed. For there are in the divinity of the word some
helps towards the cure of those who are sick, respecting which the word
says, “They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are
sick;”3617
others, again,
which to the pure in soul and body exhibit “the revelation of the
mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, but now is made
manifest by the Scriptures of the prophets,”3618
and “by the appearing of our Lord
Jesus Christ,”3619
which
“appearing” is manifested to each one of those who are
perfect, and which enlightens the reason3620
in
the true3621
knowledge of
things. But as he exaggerates the charges against us, adding,
after his list of those vile individuals whom he has mentioned, this
remark, “What other persons would a robber summon to himself by
proclamation?” we answer such a question by saying that a robber
summons around him individuals of such a character, in order to make
use of their villainy against the men whom they desire to slay and
plunder. A Christian, on the other hand, even though he invite
those whom the robber invites, invites them to a very different
vocation, viz., to bind up these wounds by His word, and to apply to
the soul, festering amid evils, the drugs obtained from the word, and
which are analogous to the wine and oil, and plasters, and other
healing appliances which belong to the art of
medicine.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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