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.

Foolish, imprudent, silly, and uninstructed men[*](Exhortation against those who act otherwise) mock and deride us, wishing to exalt themselves in their own conceits.

For what can mortal man do, or what is the strength of him who is a child of earth?

For it is written There was no shape before mine eyes, but I heard a sound and a voice.

What then? Shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? Or shall a man be blameless in his deeds, seeing that he believeth not in his servants, and hath noted perversity in his angels?