Certainly, if He were to imitate our way of acting, we should
Icnatius oF ANTIOCH Word, came forth out of the silence into the world * and won the full approval of Him whose Ambassador He was.
9. Consequently, if the people who were given to obsolete practices faced the hope of a new life, and if these no longer observe the Sabbath, but regulate their calendar by the Lord's
Day, the day, too, on which our Life rose by His power and through the medium of His death—though some deny this; and if to this mystery we owe our faith and because of it submit to sufferings to prove ourselves disciples of Jesus
Christ, our only Teacher: 2 how, then, can we possibly live. apart from Him of whom, by the working of the Spirit, even the Prophets were disciples and to whom they looked forward as their Teacher? And so He, for whom they rightly waited, came and raised them from the dead.
10. Let us not, then, be insensible to His loving kindness.
Certainly, if He were to imitate our way of acting, we should be done for instantly. We must, therefore, prove ourselves
His disciples and learn to live like Christians.
Assuredly, whoever is called by a name other than this," is not of God.
2 Hence, put away the deteriorated leaven, a leaven stale and sour, and turn to the new leaven, that is, Jesus Christ. Be salted in Him® to keep any among you from being spoiled, for by your odor you will be tested. 3 It is absurd to have
Jesus Christ on the lips, and at the same time live like a Jew.
No; Christianity did not believe in Judaism, but Judaism believed in Christianity, and in its bosom was assembled everyone professing * faith in God.
11. Now this, dearly beloved, I do not write as though I had learned that any of you were men of that description, but because, as one who is not your superior,* I merely wish to warn you betimes not to yield to the bait of false doctrine,