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Catecharium

The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Chapter 54

4 sections

Clement of Rome

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Who then among you is noble, who is compassionate, who is filled with love?

Let him cry :— If sedition and strife and divisions have arisen on my account, I will depart, I will go away whithersoever you will, and I will obey the commands of the people; only let the flock of Christ have peace with the presbyters set over it.”

He who does this will win for himself great glory in Christ, and every place will receive him, for “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness of it.”

This has been in the past, and will be in the future, the conduct of those who live without regrets as citizens in the city of God.

Trans. Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library), 1912. Public domain.

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