“"Since, when we were children," says the same apostle, "we were kept in bondage under the rudiments of the world. And the child, though heir, differeth nothing from a servant, till the time appointed of the father." Philosophers, then, are children, unless they have been made men by Christ. "For if the son of the bond…”
Clement of Alexandria, 3th c. — The Stromata Book 1
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1Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
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— Galatians 4:1 —
2But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: