Clement of Alexandria — Instructor 1.6

We were not called children and infants for a childish, contemptible lesson. Regenerated, we have at once received the perfect — which is why we were hurrying. For we were illuminated; and that means to know God. The one who knows the perfect is not incomplete.

To believe only and to be regenerated is perfection in life; God is never weak. As his will is work and that work is called world, so his wish is the salvation of human beings, and that is called church. The one newly regenerated — as the name shows — being illuminated, is at once freed from darkness and receives the light.