Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII For he possesses in its sincerity the faith which is exercised in reference to the affairs of life, and praises the Gospel in practice and contemplation. And, in truth, he wins his praise "not from men, but from God,"[119] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Now it is quite within the purpose of the God of the law that circumcision should be that of the heart, not in the flesh; in the spirit, and not in the letter.[616] Origen Against Celsus Book VII God may therefore have commanded men to destroy all their vices utterly, even at their birth, without having enjoined anything contrary to the teaching of Christ; and He may Himself have destroyed before the eyes of those who were "Jews inwardly"[39] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes in which former there is praise, not of men, but of God.[490] Origen Commentary on John Book I In the same manner, it appears to me that the whole people of Christ, when we regard it in the aspect of the hidden man of the heart,[1] This High-Priest is called, from some other notion of him than those we have noticed, Judas, that those who are Jews secretly[181]