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Understand then, my Brethren, our language and theirs, and look which ye would choose. This is what we say; "Be we holy, God knoweth it; be we unrighteous, this again He knoweth better; place not your hope in us, whatsoever we be. If we be good, do as is written, Be ye imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.' 1 But if we be bad, not even thus are ye abandoned, not even thus have ye remained without counsel: give ear to Him, saying, Do what they say; but do not what they do.'" 2 Whereas they on the contrary say, "If we were not good, ye were lost." Lo, here is "another that shall come in his own name." Shall my life then depend on thee, and my salvation be tied up in thee? Have I so forgotten my foundation? Was not Christ the Rock? 3 Is it not that he that buildeth upon the rock, neither the wind nor the floods overthrow him? 4 Come then, if thou wilt, with me upon the Rock, and do not wish to be to me for the rock.
