Erster Clemensbrief

of God which is at Corinth, called, sanctified by the will of God, through our Lord Jesus Christ ; grace to you and peace from Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, be multiplied. 1. The sudden and repeated dangers and calamities which have befallen us, brethren, have, we fear, made us too slow in giving heed to those things which ye inquired of us, as well as to that wicked and detestable sedition, altogether unbecoming the elect of God, which a few hasty and self-willed persons have excited to such a degree of madness, that your venerable and renowned name, so worthy of the love of all men, is thereby greatly blasphemed. For who that hath sojourned among you hath not experienced the firmness of your faith, and its fruitfulness in all good works? and admired the temper and moderation of your piety in Christ? and proclaimed the magnificent spirit of your hospitality? and thought you happy in your perfect and certain knowledge (of the Gospel) ? For ye did all things without respect of persons ; and walked according to the laws of God ; being subject to those who had the rule over you ; and giving to the elders among you the honor which was due. . Young men ye commanded to think those things which are modest and grave. Women ye exhorted to perform all things with an unblameable, and seemly, and pure conscience; loving their own husbands as was fitting: ye taught them, also, to be subject to the rule of obedience, and to order their houses gravely with all discretion. Yol. IV. — 1 % 2 THE EPISTLE OF CLEMENT [$2,3.