Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth

And then the Son of God will be exceeding glad, and shall rejoice over them, because He has received His people pure."[35]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II

For this Church is the daughter of the Highest, which has been in travail of you by the word of grace, and has "formed Christ in you," of whom you are made partakers, and thereby become His holy and chosen members, "not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but as being holy and unspotted in the faith, ye are complete in Him, after the image of God that created you."[272]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

is a gate of Hades, we shall apprehend that the soul, which has "spot or wrinkle or any such thing,"[83]

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