Codex: Clement of Rome
Book: First Epistle on Virginity
Virgins, by the Laying Aside of All Carnal Affection, are Imitators of God.
8:1 For, if a man be only in name called holy, he is not holy; but he must be holy in everything: in his body and in his spirit.
8:2 And those who are virgins rejoice at all times in becoming like God and His Christ, and are imitators of them.
8:3 For in those that are such there is not "the mind of the flesh." In those who are truly believers, and "in whom the Spirit of Christ dwells" — 1 xrefs
8:4 in them "the mind of the flesh" cannot be: which is fornication, uncleanness, wantonness; idolatry, sorcery; enmity, jealousy, rivalry, wrath, disputes, dissensions, ill-will;
8:5 drunkenness, revelry; buffoonery, foolish talking, boisterous laughter; backbiting, insinuations; bitterness, rage; clamour, abuse, insolence of speech;
8:6 malice, inventing of evil, falsehood; talkativeness, babbling; threatenings, gnashing of teeth, readiness to accuse, jarring, disdainings, blows;
8:7 perversions of the right, laxness in judgment; haughtiness, arrogance, ostentation, pompousness, boasting of family, of beauty, of position, of wealth, of an arm of flesh;
8:8 quarrelsomeness, injustice, eagerness for victory; hatred, anger, envy, perfidy, retaliation; debauchery, gluttony, "overreaching (which is idolatry)," 1 xrefs
8:9 "the love of money (which is the root of all evils);" love of display, vainglory, love of rule, assumption, pride (which is called death, and which "God fights against"). 1 xrefs
8:10 Every man with whom are these and such like things — every such man is of the flesh.
8:11 For, "he that is born of the flesh is flesh; and he that is of the earth speaks of the earth," and his thoughts are of the earth. 2 xrefs
8:12 And "the mind of the flesh is enmity towards God.
8:13 For it does not submit itself to the law of God; for it cannot do so," because it is in the flesh, "in which dwells no good," because the Spirit of God is not in it. 2 xrefs
8:14 For this cause justly does the Scripture say regarding such a generation as this: "My Spirit shall not dwell in men for ever, because they are flesh."
8:15 "Whosoever, therefore, has not the Spirit of God in him, is none of His:"
8:16 as it is written, "The Spirit of God departed from Saul, and an evil spirit troubled him, which was sent upon him from God." 1 xrefs
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