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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 in 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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Literally, "to such examples it is right that we should cleave." ↩
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Not found in Scripture. ↩
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Literally, "be." ↩
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Or, "thou wilt overthrow." ↩
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Ps. xviii. 25, 26. ↩
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Or, "war." Comp. James iv. 1. ↩
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Comp. Eph. iv. 4-6. ↩
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Rom. xii. 5. ↩
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This clause is wanting in the text. ↩
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This clause is wanting in the text. ↩
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Comp. Matt. xviii. 6, xxvi. 24; Mark ix. 42; Luke xvii. 2. ↩
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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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Literally, "To such examples it is right that we should cleave." ↩
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Not found in Scripture. ↩
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Literally, "be." ↩
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Or, "thou wilt overthrow." ↩
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Ps. xviii. 25, 26. ↩
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Or, "war." Comp. Jas. iv. 1. ↩
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Comp. Eph. iv. 4-6. ↩
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Rom. xii. 5. ↩
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This clause is wanting in the text. ↩
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This clause is wanting in the text. ↩
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Comp. Matt. xviii. 6, Matt. xxvi. 24; Mark ix. 42; Luke xvii. 2. ↩