First Clement
Church of Rome
Chapter 3
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 III.—The Sad State of the Corinthian Church After Sedition Arose in It from Envy and Emulation.
Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you