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Chapter LII.
And let not Celsus be angry if we describe as lame
and mutilated in soul those who run to the temples as to places having
a real sacredness and who cannot see that no mere mechanical work of
man can be truly sacred. Those whose piety is grounded on the
teaching of Jesus also run until they come to the end of their course,
when they can say in all truth and confidence: “I have
fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness.”4817
And each of
us runs “not as uncertain,” and he so fights with evil
“not as one beating the air,”4818
but as against those who are subject to “the prince of the power
of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience.”4819
Celsus may
indeed say of us that we “live with the body which is a dead
thing;” but we have learnt, “If ye live after the flesh, ye
shall die; but if ye by the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye
shall live;”4820
and, “If we
live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”4821
Would that we might convince him by
our actions that he did us wrong, when he said that we “live with
the body which is dead!”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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