Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I For what is the use of wisdom, if it makes not him who can hear it wise? For still the Saviour saves, "and always works, as He sees the Father."[29] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews and so on; which works not even you deny that Christ did, inasmuch as you were wont to say that, "on account of the works ye stoned Him not, but because He did them on the Sabbaths."[187] Tertullian Against Praxeas whilst to the Jews He remarks respecting the cure of the impotent man, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."[259] A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity For He also is the image of God the Father; so that it is added, moreover, to these things, that "as the Father worketh, so also the Son worketh."[231] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes : "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work."[278] Methodius Discourse II. Theophila For this is quite manifest, that God, like a painter, is at this very time working at the world, as the Lord also taught, "My Father worketh hitherto."[2] Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection For he knew that Wisdom, the first-born of God, the parent and artificer of all things, brings forth everything into the world; whom the ancients called Nature and Providence, because she, with constant provision and care, gives to all things birth and growth. "For," says the Wisdom of God, "my Father worketh hitherto, and I work."[49]