Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI -deemed worthy of another fold and mansion, in proportion to their faith. "But My sheep hear My voice,"[201] Tertullian On Modesty , who up to that time had no existence? Else, what kind of (hypothesis) is it that the Lord, like a quibbler in answering, omitting the present subject-matter which it was His duty to refute, should spend His labour about one yet future? "But a `sheep' properly means a Christian,[81] A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity If Christ was only man, how does He say, "And I know them, and my sheep follow me; and I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish? "[111] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes I know who are ours; for "my sheep," He says, "hear my voice."[205]