Million Book Collection - The Fishers of Men Ministries

I 86 THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOMmake that which rules thee pure and clear. Consciencealone can give thee this power. Now youmust know that the teacher is a messenger sent fromJupiter to men concerning what is good and evil, toshow them that thev 9f are in error, * and seek the essenceof good and evil where it is not, but lay not to heartwhere it is. ... Tell us then, sir messenger andwatchman, where good is. ' 0 men/ he says, ' whithergo ye ? What do ye ? You seek happiness and thatwhich should rule you where it is not, and believenot when another shows it you. Why do you seekit I'-ifJioi't ? Is it in the body or in wealth ? Seethose who are now rich, of what sorrow their life isfull. Is it in holdin office ? Not so, or those whohave been twice or thrice consul would be happy, butthey are not. It is where you think not, and whereyou will not seek it. For had you willed, you wouldhave found it in yourselves.' . . . And remember, theteacher must be entirely in the service of God withoutdistraction, able to visit men, not bound to his privatebusiness, nor embarrassed with relations, which if hedisregard he will lose his character for integrity, whileif he maintain them he will destroy the messenger,the watchman and the herald of the gods. For think,if he has got O to provide JT for a father-in-law or theother relations of a wife, or a wife herself, or childrenand their needs. Where, I pray you, would be thatking who provides for the common good, to whompeoples are committed and who has so many cares,who has to be l bishop over others, over the married,over those who have children, to see who treats hiswife well, and who ill, who quarrels, what house isl 8v Set roi/s dXXouj (TriffKOTreiv, p. 462, and 61 eiriaKotrovvTes ira/caret, dri'dfjuv #/>u>7roi'S, p. 463.