Let Us Cleave to the Righteous: Your Strife is Pernicious. - 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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Let Us Cleave to the Righteous: Your Strife is Pernicious.
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Chapter XLVI.—Let Us Cleave to the Righteous: Your Strife is Pernicious.

Such examples, therefore, brethren, it is right that we should follow;⁴²⁴⁴

⁴²⁴⁴ Literally, “to such examples it is right that we should cleave.”
since it is written, “Cleave to the holy, for those that cleave to them shall [themselves] be made holy.”⁴²⁴⁵

⁴²⁴⁵ Not found in Scripture.
And again, in another place, [the Scripture] saith, “With a harmless man thou shalt prove⁴²⁴⁶

⁴²⁴⁶ Literally, “be.”
thyself harmless, and with an elect man thou shalt be elect, and with a perverse man thou shalt show⁴²⁴⁷

⁴²⁴⁷ Or, “thou wilt overthrow.”
thyself perverse.”⁴²⁴⁸

⁴²⁴⁸ Ps. xviii. 25, 26.
Let us cleave, therefore, to the innocent and righteous, since these are the elect of God. Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and schisms, and wars⁴²⁴⁹

⁴²⁴⁹ Or, “war.” Comp. James iv. 1.
among you? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And have we not one calling in Christ?⁴²⁵⁰

⁴²⁵⁰ Comp. Eph. iv. 4–6.
Why do we divide and tear in pieces the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of madness as to forget that “we are members one of another?”⁴²⁵¹

⁴²⁵¹ Rom. xii. 5.
Remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, how⁴²⁵²

⁴²⁵² This clause is wanting in the text.
He said, “Woe to that man [by whom⁴²⁵³

⁴²⁵³ This clause is wanting in the text.
offences come]! It were better for him that he had never been born, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my elect. Yea, it were better for him that a millstone should be hung about [his neck], and he should be sunk in the depths of the sea, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my little ones.”⁴²⁵⁴

⁴²⁵⁴ Comp. Matt. xviii. 6, xxvi. 24; Mark ix. 42; Luke xvii. 2.
Your schism has subverted [the faith of] many, has discouraged many, has given rise to doubt in many, and has caused grief to us all. And still your sedition continueth.
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