Let Us Admonish and Correct One Another. - 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 LVI.—Let Us Admonish and Correct One Another.

Let us then also pray for those who have fallen into any sin, that meekness and humility may be given to them, so that they may submit, not unto us, but to the will of God. For in this way they shall secure a fruitful and perfect remembrance from us, with sympathy for them, both in our prayers to God, and our mention of them to the saints.⁴²⁹⁸

⁴²⁹⁸ Literally, “there shall be to them a fruitful and perfect remembrance, with compassions both towards God and the saints.”
Let us receive correction, beloved, on account of which no one should feel displeased. Those exhortations by which we admonish one another are both good [in themselves], and highly profitable, for they tend to unite⁴²⁹⁹

⁴²⁹⁹ Or “they unite.”
us to the will of God. For thus saith the holy Word: “The Lord hath severely chastened me, yet hath not given me over to death.”⁴³⁰⁰

⁴³⁰⁰ Ps. cxviii. 18.
“For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.”⁴³⁰¹

⁴³⁰¹ Prov. iii. 12; Heb. xii. 6.
“The righteous,”⁴³⁰²

⁴³⁰² I. κύριος (Lord).
saith it, “shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let not the oil of sinners make fat my head.”⁴³⁰³

⁴³⁰³ Ps. cxli. 5.
And again he saith, “Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproveth, and reject not thou the warning of the Almighty. For He causes sorrow, and again restores [to gladness]; He woundeth, and His hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea, in the seventh no evil shall touch thee. In famine He shall rescue thee from death, and in war He shall free thee from the power⁴³⁰⁴

⁴³⁰⁴ Literally, “hand.”
of the sword. From the scourge of the tongue will He hide thee, and thou shalt not fear when evil cometh. Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the wicked, and shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the field. For the wild beasts shall be at peace with thee: then shalt thou know that thy house shall be in peace, and the habitation of thy tabernacle shall not fail.⁴³⁰⁵

⁴³⁰⁵ Literally, “err” or “sin.”
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thy children like the grass of the field. And thou shalt come to the grave like ripened corn which is reaped in its season, or like a heap of the threshing-floor which is gathered together at the proper time.”⁴³⁰⁶

⁴³⁰⁶ Job v. 17–26.
Ye see, beloved, that⁴³⁰⁷

⁴³⁰⁷ I. βλέπετε πόσος (ye see how great).
“protection is afforded to those that are chastened of the Lord; for since God is good,⁴³⁰⁸

⁴³⁰⁸ I. (δεσπότου) πατὴρ γὰρ ἀγαθὸς ὤν (being a good father).
He corrects us, that we may be admonished”⁴³⁰⁹

⁴³⁰⁹ I. ἐλεηθῆναι (be pitied).
by His holy chastisement.
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