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THE BONDAGE OF SIN
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“Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness ? "-Romans vi. 16.
"When it is said that the Son will reveal Him to whom He wishes, it is meant that such an one is to learn of Him not by instruction, but by revelation only. For it is revelation when that which lies secretly veiled in all the hearts of men is revealed (udveiled) by His (God's) own will without any utterance. And thus knowledge comes to one, not because he bas been instructed, but because he has understood." -(Clementine Homilies) A.N.C.L. vol. XVII, p. 278.
"But that you may know that ignorance of itself brings destruction, (I assure you that) when the soul departs from the body, if it leave it in ignorance of Him by whom it was created, and from whom in this world it obtained all things that were necessary for its uses, it is driven forth from the light of His kingdom 88 ungrateful and unfaithful."-(Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iii.
p. 314.
"... As a burnished mirror, so ought man to have bus soul pure. When there 2e rust on the mirror, it is not possible that a man's face be seen in the mirror; 80 also when there is sin in & man, such a man cannot behold God. Do you, therefore, show me yourself, whether you are not an adulterer, or a fornicator, or a thief, or a robber, or a purloiner; whether you do not corrupt boys; whether you are not insolent, or & slanderer, or passionate, or envious, or proud, or supercilious; whether you are not a brawler, or covetous, or disobedient to parents; and whether you do not sell pour children ; for to those who do these things God is not manifest, unless they have first cleansed themselves from all impurity. All these things, then, involve you in darkness, as when a filmy defluxion on the eyes prevents one from beholding the light of the sun : thus also do iniquities, Oman, involve you in darkness, so that you cannot see God."-(Theophilus) A.N.C.L. vol. iii. p. 64.
"For every cause of sin seems to be like tow smeared with pitch, which immediately breaks into flame as soon as it receives the heat of fire; and the kindling of this fire is understood to be the work of demons. If, therefore, any one be found smeared with sing and lusts as with pitch, the fire easily gets the mastery of him. But
