Opening the library…

Search the Bible

Second Pseudo-Clement

Pseudo-Clementine writer

Chapter 7

About this work

Author: Pseudo-Clementine writer

Chapter VII.—Uses of Considering Admonitory Examples, as Well as Instructive Patterns.

Let us consider, therefore, my brethren, and see

‹ Chapter 6 Chapter 8 ›

how

all

the

righteous

fathers

conducted

themselves

during

the

whole

time

of

their

sojourn

in

this

life

,

and

let

us

search

and

examine

from

the

law

down

to

the

New

Testament

.

For

this

is

both

becoming

and

profitable

,

that

we

should

know

how

many

men

there

have

been

,

and

who

they

were

,

that

have

perished

through

women

;

and

who

and

how

many

have

been

the

women

that

have

perished

through

men

,

by

reason

of

the

constancy

with

which

they

have

associated

with

one

another

.

And

further

,

also

,

for

the

same

reason

,

I

will

show

how

many

have

been

the

men

,

and

who

they

were

,

that

lived

all

their

lifetime

,

and

continued

even

to

the

close

,

with

one

another

in

the

performance

of

chaste

works

without

blemish

.

And

it

is

manifest

and

well

-

known

that

this

is

so

.

Notes

1
Wetstein and Zingerle join on this sentence to the next, by a change of the construction.