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Chapter V.—Clement’s Office of Service.
Then I answered, “Do not think, my lord,
that I should endure that grief foolishly, but with some good
reason. For since I hold you, my lord, in place of all, father,
mother, brothers, relatives, you who are the means through God of my
having the saving truth, holding you in place of all, I have the
greatest consolation. And in addition to this, being afraid of my
natural youthful lust, I was concerned lest, being left by you (being
but a young man, and having now such a resolution that it would be
impossible to desert you without incurring the anger of God,)1143
| 1143 Here the text is
hopelessly corrupt, and the meaning can only be guessed at. | I should be overcome by lust. But
since it is much better and safer for me to remain with you, when my
mind is with good reason set upon venerating, therefore I pray that I
may always remain with you. Moreover, I remember you saying in
Cæsarea, ‘If any one wishes to journey with me, let him
piously journey.’ And by piously
you meant, that those who are devoted to the worship of God should
grieve no one in respect of God, such as by leaving parents, an
attached wife, or any others.1144
| 1144 I have ventured to
make a very slight change on the reading here, so as to bring out what
I suppose to be the sense. | Whence I am
in all respects a fitting fellow-traveller for you, to whom, if you
would confer the greatest favour, you would allow to perform the
functions of a servant.”
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