Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV God counts worthy? "To the point the Apostle Paul speaks, "If I give my body, and have not love, I am sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal."[172] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V above all these gifts, He even taught the apostle that it was the chief commandment,[372] The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity are "like a sounding pipe, or a tinkling cymbal; "[121] The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew But all these are blind who speak and hear, like sounding brass or tinkling cymbal, in which there is no perception of those things which are meant by their sound.[62] Origen Commentary on John Book VI "If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle," and that which says that though a man have knowledge of mysteries, or have prophecy but wants love, he is a sounding or a tinkling cymbal.[76]