Warning Against Disobedience. Prayer. - ANF09. The Gospel of Peter, The Diatessaron of Tatian, The Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, The Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus, The Apology of Aristides, The Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary on John, Books 1–10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10

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Chapter LIX.—Warning Against Disobedience. Prayer.

If, however, any shall disobey the words spoken by Him through us, let them know that they will involve themselves in transgression and serious danger; but we shall be innocent of this sin, and, instant in prayer and supplication, shall desire that the Creator of all preserve unbroken the computed number of His elect in the whole world through His beloved Son Jesus Christ, through whom He called us from darkness to light, from ignorance to knowledge of the glory of His name, our hope resting on Thy name which is primal cause of every creature,—having opened the eyes of our heart to the knowledge of Thee, who alone “dost rest highest among the highest, holy among the holy,”⁴³¹⁵

⁴³¹⁵ Is. lvii. 15.
who “layest low the insolence of the haughty,”⁴³¹⁶

⁴³¹⁶ Is. xiii. 11.
who “destroyest the calculations of the heathen,”⁴³¹⁷

⁴³¹⁷ Ps. xxxiii. 10.
who “settest the low on high and bringest low the exalted;”⁴³¹⁸

⁴³¹⁸ Job v. 11; Ezek. xvii. 24.
who “makest rich and makest poor,”⁴³¹⁹

⁴³¹⁹ 1 Sam. ii. 7.
who “killest and makest to live,”⁴³²⁰

⁴³²⁰ Deut. xxxii. 39.
only Benefactor of spirits and God of all flesh,⁴³²¹

⁴³²¹ Numb. xvi. 22, xxvii. 16; Jer. xxxii. 27.
who beholdest the depths, the eye-witness of human works, the help of those in danger, the Saviour of those in despair, the Creator and Guardian of every spirit, who multipliest nations upon earth, and from all madest choice of those who love Thee through Jesus Christ, Thy beloved Son, through whom Thou didst instruct, sanctify, honour us. We would have Thee, Lord, to prove our help and succour. Those of us in affliction save, on the lowly take pity; the fallen raise; upon those in need arise; the sick⁴³²²

⁴³²² I. gives ἀσεβεῖς (ungodly) where ἀσθενεῖς (sick) is substituted.
heal; the wandering ones of Thy people turn; fill the hungry; redeem those of us in bonds; raise up those that are weak; comfort the faint-hearted; let all the nations know that Thou art God alone and Jesus Christ Thy Son, and we are Thy people and the sheep of Thy pasture.
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