Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I Most admirably, therefore, the apostle says, "In everything approving ourselves as the servants of God; as poor, and yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things. Our mouth is opened to you."[8] "I charge thee," he says, writing to Timothy, "before God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things, without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality."[9] Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith And again he says: "Approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities."[84]