Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I But the wise do not utter with their mouth what they reason in council. "But what ye hear in the ear," says the Lord, "proclaim upon the houses; "[146] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI Comprehending this, as He who taught wished, and receiving it in its grand sense, he teaches worthily "on the housetops"[221] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics He had Himself commanded that, "whatsoever they had heard in darkness" and in secret, they should "declare in the light and on the house-tops."[281] Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments He took the book, therefore, and loosed it, in order that the things spoken concerning Him of old in secret, might now be proclaimed with boldness upon the house-tops.[178] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII And likewise he who holds that the fact that He was Christ had been formerly proclaimed by the Apostles when they heard the saying, "What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light, and what ye hear in the ear proclaim on the housetops,"[123]