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.

Day and night you strove on behalf of the whole brotherhood

that the number of his elect should be saved with mercy and compassion.[*](The MS. reading means conscience, which gives no sense. There is also a variant in the previous word: the inferior MS. (C) reads fear instead of mercy.)

You were sincere and innocent, and bore no malice to one another.

All sedition and all schism was abominable to you. You mourned over the transgressions of your neighbours; you judged their shortcomings as your own.