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.

This has been in the past, and will be in the future, the conduct of those who live without regrets as citizens in the city of God.

Let us also bring forward examples from[*](Other examples of loving self-sacrifice) the heathen. Many kings and rulers, when a time of pestilence has set in, have followed the counsel of oracles, and given themselves up to death, that they might rescue their subjects through their own blood.

Many have gone away from their own cities, that sedition might have an end.

We know that many among ourselves have given themselves to bondage that they might ransom others. Many have delivered themselves to slavery, and provided food for others with the price they received for themselves.

Many women have received power through the grace of God and have performed many deeds of manly valour.