Various, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, The Epistles of Clement… (1885)
“ Now, if men so eminently righteous are not able by their righteousness to deliver their children, how [7] can we hope to enter into the royal residence [8] of God unless we keep our baptism holy and undefiled? Or who shall be our advocate, unless we be found possessed of works of holiness and righteousness? ”
