First Clement
Church of Rome
Chapter 1
About this work
A lengthy letter from the church at Rome to the church at Corinth, urging peace, humility, ordered leadership, and reconciliation after conflict within the Corinthian community.
- Author
- Church of Rome
- Traditional attribution
- Clement of Rome
- Date
- c. AD 95–96
- Origin
- Rome; addressed to Corinth
- Genre
- Letter
The letter speaks corporately from the church of Rome; its association with Clement of Rome is ancient and traditional.
Chapter I.—The salutation. Praise of the Corinthians before the breaking forth of schism among them.
The Church of God which sojourns at Rome, to