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Chapter LXXI.—Separation from the Unclean.
But Peter, most benignantly regarding me, lest
haply that separation might cause me sorrow, says to me:
“It is not from pride, O Clement, that I do not eat with those
who have not yet been purified; but I fear lest perhaps I should injure
myself, and do no good to them.671
| 671 [Comp. book i. 19,
vii. 29; Homilies I. 22, XIII. 4.—R.] | For this I
would have you know for certain, that every one who has at any time
worshipped idols, and has adored those whom the pagans call gods, or
has eaten of the things sacrificed to them, is not without an unclean
spirit; for he has become a guest of demons, and has been partaker with
that demon of which he has formed the image in his mind, either through
fear or love.672
And by
these means he is not free from an unclean spirit, and therefore needs
the purification of baptism, that the unclean spirit may go out of him,
which has made its abode in the inmost affections of his soul, and what
is worse, gives no indication that it lurks within, for fear it should
be exposed and expelled.”
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