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The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Chapter XLVI.--Let us cleave to the righteous: your strife is pernicious.

Such examples, therefore, brethren, it is right that we should follow; ¹ since it is written, "Cleave to the holy, for those that cleave to them shall [themselves] be made holy." ² And again, in another place, [the Scripture] saith, "With a harmless man thou shalt prove ³ thyself harmless, and with an elect man thou shalt be elect, and with a perverse man thou shalt show ⁴ thyself perverse." ⁵ Let us cleave, therefore, to the innocent and righteous, since these are the elect of God. Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and schisms, and wars ⁶ among you? Have we not [all] one God and one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out upon us? And have we not one calling in Christ? ⁷ Why do we divide and tear to pieces the members of Christ, and raise up strife against our own body, and have reached such a height of madness as to forget that "we are members one of another?" ⁸ Remember the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, how ⁹ He said, "Woe to that man [by whom ¹⁰ offences come]! It were better for him that he had never been born, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my elect. Yea, it were better for him that a millstone should be hung about [his neck], and he should be sunk in the depths of the sea, than that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my little ones." ¹¹ Your schism has subverted [the faith of] many, has discouraged many, has given rise to doubt in many, and has caused grief to us all. And still your sedition continueth.

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First Epistle to the Corinthians (Loeb)

XLVI

1. Τοιούτοις οὖν ὑποδείγμασιν κολληθῆναι καὶ ἡμᾶς δεῖ, ἀδελφοί. 2. γέγραπται γάρ· Κολλᾶσθε τοῖς ἁγίοις, ὅτι οἱ κολλώμενοι αὐτοῖς ἁγιασθήσονται. 3. καὶ πάλιν ἐν ἑτέρῳ τύπῳ λέγει· Μετὰ ἀνδρὸς ἀθῴμου ἀθῷος ἔσῃ καὶ μετὰ ἐκλεκτοῦ ἐκλεκτὸς ἔσῃ, καὶ μετὰ στρεβλοῦ διαστρέψεις. 4. κολληθῶμεν οὖν τοῖς ἀθῷοις καὶ δικαίοις· εἰσὶν δὲ οὗτοι ἐκλεκτοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ. 5. ἱναντί ἔρεις καὶ θυμοὶ καὶ διχοσατσίαι καὶ σχίσματα πόλεμός τε ἐν ὑμῖν; 6. ἢ οὐχὶ ἕνα θεὸν ἔχομεν καὶ ἕνα Χριστὸν καὶ ἓν πνεῦμα τῆς χάριτος τὸ ἐχυθὲν ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς; καὶ μία κλῆσις ἐν Χριστῷ; 7. ἱναντί διέλκομεν καὶ διασπῶμεν τὰ μέλη τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ στασιάζομεν πρὸς τὸ σῶμα τὸ ἴδιον, καὶ εἰς τοσαύτην ἀπόνοιαν ἐρχόμεθα, ὥστε ἐπιλαθέσθαι ἡμᾶς, ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων; μνήσθητε τῶν λόγων τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ. 8. εἶπεν γάρ· Οὐαὶ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐκείνῳ· καλὸν ἧν αὐτῷ, εἰ οὐκ ἐγεννήθη, ἢ ἕνα τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν μου σκανδαλίσαι· κρεῖττον ἦν αὐτῷ περιτεθῆναι μύλον καὶ καταποντισθῆναι εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, ἢ ἕνα τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν μου διαστρέψαι. 9. τὸ σχίσμα ὑμῶν πολλοὺς διέστρεψεν, πολλούς εἰς ἀθυμίαν ἔβαλεν, πολλοὺς εἰς δισταγμόν, τοὺς πάντας ἡμᾶς εἰς λύπην· καὶ ἐπίμονς, ὑμῶν ἐστιν ἡ στάσις.