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.

But they who endured in confidence obtained the inheritance of glory and honour; they were exalted, and were enrolled by God in his memorial for ever and ever. Amen.

We also, brethren, must therefore cleave to such[*](Exhortation against schism) examples.

For it is written, Cleave to the holy, for they who cleave to them shall be made holy.[*](The source of this quotation is unknown.)

And again in another place it says, With the innocent man thou shalt be innocent, and with the elect man thou shalt be elect, and with the perverse man thou shalt do perversely.[*](Clement takes the word for with (μετά) to mean in the company of: in Ps. 17 (in Hebrew and English Ps. 18) it means in the case of, and the subject of the verbs is God.)