C. "For the invisible » things of Him [God]— namely. His

Eternal* Power and Godhead — are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by His things that are made ; so that they [men] are without excuse. Because that, though knowing God, they glorified Him not as God, nor did they give [Him] thanks, but their non-understanding heart was made f ooUsh.^
* Compare the so-called Second EpittU of CUment (an early homily incorporating extra-canonical Gospel-materials), xii. 8 : " For the Lord Himself being asked by some one when his King- dom should come, said : When the two shall be one, and the outside as the inside, and the male with the female neither male nor female " ; and also the well-known logoiy from The Gospel according to the Egyptians^ quoted several times by Clement of Alexandria : " When Salome asked how long Death should prevail, the Lord said : So long as ye women bear children ; for I am come to destroy the work of the Female. And Salome said to Him : Did I therefore well in bearing no children ? The Lord answered and said : Eat every Herb, but eat not that which hath bitterness. When Salome asked when these things about which she questioned should be made known, the Lord said : When ye trample upon the Garment of Shame ; when the Two become One, and Male with Female neither male nor female.'' And with the last logos of the above compare the new-found fragment of a lost Gk)6pel : " His disciples say unto Him : When wilt thou be manifest to us, and when shall we see Thee ? He saith : When ye shall be stripped and not be ashamed." — Grenfell and Himt, Nevo Sayings of Jesus (London, 1904), p. 40. The environment is E^Qrptian and ascetic ; it is a saying addressed to a community, as may be seen from one of the previous logoi: "Having one garment what do ye [lack] 9 "
* See Rom. I 20>23, 25-27.
* UBus — evidently a word-play.
* The received Pauline text is slightly shortened here.
154 THRIGE-OREATE8T HERMES
" Profeflsmg themselyes to be wise, thej convicted themselves of folly, and changed the Qlory of the Incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and of four-footed beasts, and creeping things.^ . . .'
** Wherefore also God gave them up to passions of dishonour ; for both their females did change their natural use to that which is against nature —
H. And what the natural use is, according to them, we will say later on.