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JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
“ As are men's wishes, so are their words;
As are their words, so are their deeds;
And as their works, such is their life." (Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iv. p. 110.
"... For if anyone should take a deadly drug in ignorance, does he not die? So naturally sins destroy the sinner, though he commit them in ignorance of what is right."-(Clementine Homilies) A.N.C.L. vol. xvii. p. 266.
"... as by impiety they [men] have been made liable to suffer, so by piety they may be made free from suffering; and not only free from suffering, but by even a little faith in God be able to cure the sufferings of others."-(Recogations of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. iii. p. 304.
“But the ways in which this garment may be spotted are these : If any one withdraw from God the Father and Creator of all, receiving another teacher besides Christ, who alone is the faithful and true Prophet ... if anyone think otherwise than worthily of the substance of the Godhead, which excels all things ;-these are the things which even fatally pollute the garment of baptism. But the things which pollute it in actions are these : murders, adulteries, hatreda, avarice, evil ambition. And the things which pollu once the soul and the body are these : to partake of the table of demons, that is, to taste things sacrificed, or blood, or & carcase which 18 strangled, and if there be aught else which has been offered to demons."-A.N.C.L. vol. iii. p. 802.
4. (The internal agitations of the soul):
"For wherever, as the philosophers hold, there 18 any agitation, there of necessity passion must exist. Where passion is situated, it is reasonable that mental excitement follow. Where there is mental excitement, there grief and sorrow exist. Where grief and SOTOW exist, there is already room for weakening and decay; and if these two barass them, extinction is at hand, viz., death, which ends all things, and takes away life from every sentient being."-(Arnobius) A.N.C.L. vol. xix. p. 16. .. " For ... we think that they (if only they are true gods...] should be free . . ., from all agitating and disturbing passions; should not burn with anger ..."-Ibid. p. 272.
