People’s Open Bible
2 Clement 12
Love and Righteousness Await
Open in the reader →1Therefore let us await the kingdom of God betimes in love and righteousness, since we do not know the day of God’s appearing. For the Lord himself, being asked by a certain person when his kingdom would come, said, “When the two shall be one, and the outside as the inside, and the male with the female, neither male nor female.” Now the two are one when we speak truth among ourselves, and in two bodies there shall be one soul, without dissimulation. And by the outside as the inside he means this: by the inside he means the soul, and by the outside the body. Therefore, in like manner as the body appears, so also let your soul be manifest by its good works. And by the male with the female, neither male nor female, he means this: that a brother seeing a sister should have no thought of her as a female, and that a sister seeing a brother should have no thought of him as a male. “These things, if you do,” he says, “the kingdom of my Father shall come.”
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