Let us therefore serve God with a pure heart, and we shall be righteous; but if we do not serve Him, because we believe not the promise of God, we shall be miserable. For the prophetic word also declares, “Wretched are those of a double mind, and who doubt in their heart, who say, All these things have we heard even in the times of our fathers; but though we have waited day by day, we have seen none of them [accomplished]. Ye fools! compare yourselves to a tree; take, for instance, the vine. First of all it sheds its leaves, then the bud appears; after that the sour grape, and then the fully-ripened fruit. So, likewise, my people have borne disturbances and afflictions, but afterwards shall they receive their good things.”[312] Wherefore, my brethren, let us not be of a double mind, but let us hope and endure, that we also may obtain the reward. For He is faithful who has promised that He will bestow on every one a reward according to his works. If, therefore, we shall do righteousness in the sight of God, we shall enter into His kingdom, and shall receive the promises, “which ear hath not heard, nor eye seen, neither have entered into the heart of man.”[313] CHAP. XII.—_We are constantly to look for the kingdom of God._ Let us expect, therefore, hour by hour, the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we know not the day of the appearing of God. For the Lord Himself, being asked by one when His kingdom would come, replied, “When two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female.”[314] Now, two are one when we speak the truth one to another, and there is unfeignedly one soul in two bodies. And “that which is without as that which is within” meaneth this: He calls the soul “that which is within,” and the body “that which is without.” As, then, thy body is visible to sight, so also let thy soul be manifest by good works. And “the male with the female, neither male nor female, this”[315].... Footnote 259: No title, not even a letter, is preserved in the MS. Footnote 260: Literally, “holy things.” Footnote 261: Comp. Ps. cxvi. 12. Footnote 262: Literally, “lame.” Footnote 263: Literally, “of men.” Footnote 264: Literally, “being full of such darkness in our sight.” Footnote 265: Literally, “having beheld in us much error and destruction.” Footnote 266: Comp. Hos. ii. 23; Rom. iv. 17, ix. 25. Footnote 267: Literally, “willed us from not being to be.” Footnote 268: Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27. Footnote 269: Some render, “should not cry out, like women in travail.” The text is doubtful. Footnote 270: It has been remarked that the writer here implies he was a Gentile. Footnote 271: Matt. ix. 13; Luke v. 32. Footnote 272: Comp. Matt. xviii. 11. Footnote 273: Literally, “already perishing.” Footnote 274: Literally, “what is the knowledge which is towards Him.” Footnote 275: Matt. x. 32.