First Clement
Church of Rome
Chapter 2
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 II.—Praise of the Corinthians continued.
Moreover, ye were all distinguished by humility, and