Chapter 15. Exhortation to confess Christ by silence as well as speech

Chapter 16

1It is better for a man to be silent and be [a Christian ], than to talk and not to be one. It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts. There is then one Teacher , who spoke and it was done; while even those things which He did in silence are worthy of the Father . He who possesses the word of Jesus , is truly able to hear even His very silence , that he may be perfect , and may both act as he speaks, and be recognised by his silence . There is nothing which is hid from God , but our very secrets are near to Him. Let us therefore do all things as those who have Him dwelling in us, that we may be His temples, 1 Corinthians 6:19 and He may be in us as our God , which indeed He is, and will manifest Himself before our faces. Wherefore we justly love Him.