Chapter 5

1A Fragment. Of the Lord's kingdom .
1** For the Lord himself, being asked by a certain person, When his kingdom should come? answered, When two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within; and the male with the female, neither male nor female.
2Now two are one , when we speak the truth to each other, and there is (without hypocrisy) one soul in two bodies:
3And that which is without as that which is within; —He means this: he calls the soul that which is within, and the body that which is without. As therefore thy body appears, so let thy soul be seen by its good works.
4And the male with the female neither male nor female; —He means this; he calls our anger the male, our concupiscence the female.
5When therefore a man is come to such a pass that he is subject neither to the one nor the other of these (both of which, through the prevalence of custom, and an evil education, cloud and darken the reason,)
6But rather, having dispelled the mist arising from them, and being full of shame, shall by repentance have united both his soul and spirit in the obedience of reason; then, as Paul says, there is in us neither male nor female Footnotes 139:5 Little things, or meanly. 140:1 Hear as of little things. 140:2 Knowing. 140:3 How greatly holy things do we owe unto him. 140:4 Isaiah liv. 1. 140:5 Ἀπλως. See St. James i. 5. Compare Rom. xii. 8. 2 Cor. viii. 2, ix. 11, 13. 140:6 Matt. ix. 13. 141:1 What is the knowledge which is towards him. 141:2 Matt. x. 32. 141:3 Isaiah xxix. 13. 141:4 Matt. vii. 21. 141:5 Wherefore we doing these things. 141:6 Matt. xii. 23; Luke xiii. 27. 141:7 Matt. v. 16. 141:8 Luke xii. 4, 5. 142:1 MS. Alexander. οσιως και διακαιως ανϛρεφεσθαι. 142:2 Luke xvi. 13. 142:3 Matt. xvi 26. 142:4 Ezek. xiv. 14, 20. 142:5 Isaiah lxvi. 24. 143:1 Let us repent. 143:2 There. 143:3 Luke xvi. 10, 12. 143:4 MS. Alex. plane sic exhibit: εις Χριϛος. 143:5 Vox. Θεου non est in MS. 143:6 Matt. xii. 50. 143:7 For, for this cause, we cannot find a man. Aliter Wendel. in traduct. lat. q. v. 144:1 See I. Clement, chap. x. 144:2 1 Cor. ii. 9. Next: The General Epistle of Barnabas