{"id":8255,"date":"2014-10-18T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T08:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2014-10-18T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T08:05:03","slug":"man-has-been-made-the-friend-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/man-has-been-made-the-friend-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Man has been made the friend of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8256\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/man-has-been-made-the-friend-of-god\/sv-kliment-aleksandrijski\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sv.Kliment-Aleksandrijski.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"332,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sv.Kliment Aleksandrijski\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sv.Kliment-Aleksandrijski.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sv.Kliment-Aleksandrijski.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8256\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sv.Kliment-Aleksandrijski.jpg\" alt=\"Sv.Kliment Aleksandrijski\" width=\"332\" height=\"480\" \/>From the Exhortation to the Heathen by St Clement of Alexandria, Priest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It will not, it will not be pleasing to God Himself if we value least those things which are worth most, and hold in the highest estimation the manifest enormities and the utter impiety of folly, and ignorance, and thoughtlessness, and idolatry.\u00a0 For not improperly the sons of the philosophers consider that the foolish are guilty of profanity and impiety in whatever they do; and describing ignorance itself as a species of madness, allege that the multitude are nothing but madmen.\u00a0 There is therefore no room to doubt, the Word will say, whether it is better to be sane or insane; but holding on to truth with our teeth, we must with all our might follow God, and in the exercise of wisdom regard all things to be, as they are, his; and besides, having learned that we are the most excellent of his possessions, let us commit ourselves to God, loving the Lord God, and regarding this as our business all our life long.\u00a0 And if what belongs to friends be reckoned common property, and man be the friend of God\u2014for through the mediation of the Word has he been made the friend of God\u2014then accordingly all things become man&#8217;s, because all things are God&#8217;s, and the common property of both the friends, God and man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Exhortation to the Heathen by St Clement of Alexandria, Priest It will not, it will not be pleasing to God Himself if we value least those things which are worth most, and hold in the highest estimation the manifest enormities and the utter impiety of folly, and ignorance, and thoughtlessness, and idolatry.\u00a0 For <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florilegium-patristicum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-299","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}