The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Owing to the sudden and repeated misfortunes[*](Reason for delay in writing) and calamities[*](Or, with Knopf’s text critical circumstances.) which have befallen us, we consider that our attention has been somewhat delayed in turning to the questions disputed among you, beloved, and especially the abominable and unholy sedition, alien and foreign to the elect of God, which a few rash and self-willed persons have made blaze up to such a frenzy that your name, venerable and famous, and worthy as it is of all men’s love, has been much slandered.