Continuation of the Remarks on Self-Denial; Object and Reward of True Virgins. - ANF08. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementia, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Age

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Continuation of the Remarks on Self-Denial; Object and Reward of True Virgins.
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Chapter IV.—Continuation of the Remarks on Self-Denial; Object and Reward of True Virgins.

For he who covets for himself these things so great and excellent, withdraws and severs himself on this account from all the world, that he may go and live a life divine and heavenly, like the holy angels, in work pure and holy, and “in the holiness³¹⁹

³¹⁹ “Sanctification.”—Beelen. [So A.V. The R.V. correctly renders ἁγιασμός, “sanctification,” in every instance.—R.]
of the Spirit of God,”³²⁰

³²⁰ 2 Thess. ii. 13.
and that he may serve God Almighty through Jesus Christ for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. On this account he severs himself from all the appetites of the body. And not only does he excuse himself from this command, “Be fruitful, and multiply,” but he longs for the “hope promised” and prepared “and laid up in heaven”³²¹

³²¹ Col. i. 5.
by God, who has declared with His mouth, and He does not lie, that it is “better than sons and daughters,”³²²

³²² Isa. lvi. 4, 5.
and that He will give to virgins a notable place in the house of God, which is something “better than sons and daughters,” and better than the place of those who have passed a wedded life in sanctity, and whose “bed has not been defiled.”³²³

³²³ Heb. xiii. 4.
For God will give to virgins the kingdom of heaven, as to the holy angels, by reason of this great and noble profession.

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