Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I For, wandering in life as in deep darkness, we need a guide that cannot stumble or stray; and our guide is the best, not blind, as the Scripture says, "leading the blind into pits."[13] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics You therefore, who seek after their fashion, looking to those who are themselves ever seeking, a doubter to doubters, a waverer to waverers, must needs be "led, blindly by the blind, down into the ditch."[162] Cyprian Epistle XXXIX and flee from their words, avoiding them as a cancer and a plague, as the Lord warns you and says, "They are blind leaders of the blind. But if the blind lead the blind, they shall both fall into the ditch."[10] Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church He saith, "They are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, they shall both fall into the ditch."[53] The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity These, moreover, are like "the blind man who leads the blind man, and they both fall into the ditch."[111] Melito the Philosopher to us all to see thereby; and if, when light has arisen upon us, any one close his eyes so as not to see, into the ditch he must go.[8] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI And since, because of their evil opinions, the Pharisees were not the plant of His Father in heaven, on this account, as about such as were incorrigible, He says to the disciple, "Let them alone; "[114] I have deemed it necessary to introduce these matters, even though they may have been spoken by way of digression, because of the saying, "They are blind guides of the blind."[126]