"The means of judging these matters is on the basis of their ends, not on the basis of what is currently at hand."

"He, therefore, who was lofty in mind standing, as it were, on some prominent look-out point and straining his vision to see those things which were far removed, saw wherein the difference between evil and virtue lies. The means of judging these matters is on the basis of their ends, not on the basis of what is currently at hand. For by that eye of the soul which is capable of contemplation and discernment he has understood what has been stored up for the good through hope as though it were present[...]" (On the Inscriptions, GNO 41, p. 99)

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"[...]we ought narrowly to scrutinize our Father's characteristics, that by fashioning and framing ourselves to the likeness of our Father[...]"

"[...]man was brought into the world last after the creation, not being rejected to the last as worthless, but as one whom it behoved to be king over his subjects at his very birth."

Nein!(?) A negative "point of contact" in the Epistle to Diognetus?