The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Why are there strife and passion and divisions and schisms and war among you?

Or have we not one God, and one Christ, and one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ?

Why do we divide and tear asunder the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and reach such a pitch of madness as to forget that we are members one of another? Remember the words of the Lord Jesus;

for he said, Woe unto that man: it were good for him if he had not been born, than that he should offend one of my elect; it were better for him that a millstone be hung on him, and he be cast into the sea, than that he should turn aside one of my elect.

Your schism has turned aside many, has cast many into discouragement, many to doubt, all of us to grief; and your sedition continues.

Take up the epistle of the blessed Paul the[*](The example and teaching of St. Paul, and the early parties at Corinth) Apostle.