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Chapter XIV.—Knowledge Enhances Responsibility.
“And truly confusion is our worthy portion,
if we have done no more than those who are inferior to us in
knowledge. But if it be confusion to us, to be found equal to
them in works, what shall become of us if the examination that is to
take place find us inferior and worse than them? Hear, therefore,
how our true Prophet has taught us concerning these things; for, with
respect to those who neglect to hear the words of wisdom, He speaks
thus: ‘The queen of the south shall rise in judgment with
this generation, and shall condemn it, because she came from the ends
of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than
Solomon is here, and they hear Him not.’787
But with respect to those who
refused to repent of their evil deeds, He spoke thus: ‘The
men of Nineve shall rise in the judgment with this generation, and
shall condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and,
behold, a greater than Jonas is here.’788
You see, therefore, how He
condemned those who were instructed out of the law, by adducing the
example of those who came from Gentile ignorance, and showing that the
former were not even equal to those who seemed to live in error.
From all these things, then, the statement that He propounded is
proved, that chastity, which is observed to a certain extent even by
those who live in error, should be held much more purely and strictly,
in all its forms, as we showed above, by us who follow the truth; and
the rather because with us eternal rewards are assigned to its
observance.”
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