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Pseudo-Clementine Literature · The Clementine Homilies. Books I. To V. Have Been Translated · Chapter XXII

Male and Female

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"But a companion was created along with him, a female nature, much differing from him, as quality from substance, as the moon from the sun, as fire from light. She, as a female ruling the present world as her like,966 was entrusted to be the first prophetess, announcing prophecy with all amongst those born of woman.967 But the other, as the son of man, being a male, prophesies better things to the world to come as a male.

Notes

  1. 966

    That is, the present world is female, and is under the rule of the female; the world to come is male, and is under the rule of the male.

  2. 967

    The allusion is to the fact that John the Baptist is called the greatest of those born of woman, while Christ is called the Son of man.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.