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Chapter VII.—The Two
Paths.
“Knowing, then, these good and evil deeds, I
make known unto you as it were two paths,1083
| 1083 [Compare with this
chapter the recently discovered “Teaching” and Apostolic
Constitutions, book vii. chap. 1, in vol. vii. pp. 377,
465.—R.] | and I shall show you by which travellers
are lost and by which they are saved, being guided of God. The
path of the lost, then, is broad and very smooth—it ruins them
without troubling them; but the path of the saved is narrow, rugged,
and in the end it saves, not without much toil, those who have
journeyed through it. And these two paths are presided over by
unbelief and faith; and these journey through the path of unbelief,
those who have preferred pleasure, on account of which they have
forgotten the day of judgment, doing that which is not pleasing to God,
and not caring to save their souls by the word, and have not anxiously
sought their own good. Truly they know not that the counsels of
God are not like men’s counsels; for, in the first place, He
knows the thoughts of all men, and all must give an account not only of
their actions, but also of their thoughts. And their sin is much
less who strive to understand well and fall, than that of those who do
not at all strive after good things. Because it has pleased God
that he who errs in his knowledge of good, as men count errors, should
be saved after being slightly punished. But they who have taken
no care at all to know the better way, even though they may have done
countless other good deeds, if they have not stood in the service He
has Himself appointed, come under the charge of indifference, and are
severely punished, and utterly destroyed.
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