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The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Chapter 18

2 sections

Unknown (traditionally ascribed to Clement of Rome)

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

Let us then also belong to them who give thanks, who have served God, and not to the ungodly who are judged.

For I myself too am altogether sinful, and I have not yet escaped temptation, but I am still in the midst of the devices of the devil, yet I am striving to follow after righteousness, that I may have the strength at least to draw near to it, in fear of the judgment to come.

Trans. Kirsopp Lake, The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I (Loeb Classical Library), 1912. Public domain.

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