First Clement
Church of Rome
Chapter 44
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 XLIV.—The ordinances of the apostles, that there might be no contention respecting the priestly office.
Our apostles also knew, through our Lord Jesus Christ