Second Clement
Anonymous
Chapter 16
About this work
An early Christian sermon urging repentance, moral endurance, care for the weak, and faithful response to Christ, often described as the earliest surviving Christian homily outside the New Testament.
- Author
- Anonymous
- Traditional attribution
- Clement of Rome
- Date
- c. AD 120–140
- Origin
- Corinth (often proposed)
- Genre
- Homily
Traditionally associated with Clement of Rome, but generally not regarded as his work.
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