Chapter 1

About this work

Author: Pseudo-Clementine writer

Two Epistles Concerning Virginity.

The First Epistle of the Blessed

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Clement

,

the

Disciple

of

Peter

the

Apostle

.

Chapter I.—The Salutation.

To all those who love and cherish their life in Christ through God the Father, and obey the truth of God in hope of eternal life; to those who bear affection towards their brethren and towards their neighbours in the love of God; to the blessed virgins, who devote themselves to preserve virginity “for the sake of the kingdom of heaven;” and to the holy virgins: the peace which is in God.

Notes

1
In later Greek παρθένος was used of both sexes (comp. Rev. xiv. 4). The Syriac original employs both a masculine and a feminine form. This will not always be indicated in the following translation.
2
Matt. xix. 12.
3
Or “to the holy virgins who are in God: peace.” So Zingerle, and probably Wetstein.