First Christian Voices: Practices of the Apostolic Fathers

Chapter 2: The Godhead

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What, then, does milk and honey mean? It means this. That as the infant is kept alive first by honey and then by milk, so we also, being quickened and kept alive by the faith of the promise and by the word, will live ruling over the earth. But as He said before, “Let them increase, and rule over the fishes” ( Gen 1:28 ). Who then is able to govern the beasts, or the fishes, or the birds of heaven? For we should understand that to govern implies authority so that one should command and rule. If, therefore, this does not exist at present, yet still He has promised it to us, when? When we ourselves also have been made complete so as to become heirs of the covenant of the Lord.