The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)

Clement of Rome. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.

And again he says: I saw the ungodly lifted high, and exalted as the cedars of Lebanon. And I went by, and behold he was not; and I sought his place, and I found it not. Keep innocence, and look on uprightness; for there is a remnant for a peaceable man.

Moreover let us cleave to those whose[*](Cleaving to the peaceable) peacefulness is based on piety and not to those whose wish for peace is hypocrisy.

For it says in one place: This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

And again, They blessed with their mouth, but cursed in their hearts.