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[1] Πᾶσα δόξα καὶ πλατυσμὸς ἐδόθη ὑμῖν, καὶ ἐπετελέσθη τὸ γεγραμμένον: Ἔφαγεν καὶ ἔπιεν, καὶ ἐπλατύνθη, καὶ ἐπαχύνθη, καὶ ἀπελάκτισεν ὁ ἠγαπημένος.

[2] ἐκ τούτου ζῆλος καὶ φθόνος, καὶ ἔρις, καὶ στάσις, διωγμὸς καὶ ἀκαταστασία, πόλεμος καὶ αἰχμαλωσία.

[3] οὕτως ἐπηγέρθησαν ¹ οἱ ἄτιμοι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐντίμους, οἱ ἄδοξοι ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐνδόξους, οἱ ἄφρονες ἐπὶ τοὺς φρονίμους, οἱ νέοι ² ἐπὶ τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους.

[4] διὰ τοῦτο πόρρω ἄπεστιν ἡ δικαιοσύνη καὶ εἰρήνη, ἐν τῷ ἀπολιπεῖν ἕκαστον τὸν φόβον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐν τῇ πίστει αὐτοῦ ἀμβλυωπῆσαι, μηδὲ ἐν τοῖς νομίμοις τῶν προσταγμάτων αὐτοῦ πορεύεσθαι, μηδὲ πολιτεύεσθαι κατὰ τὸ καθῆκον τῷ Χριστῷ, ἀλλὰ ἕκαστον βαδίζειν κατὰ τὰς ἐπιθυμίας τῆς καρδίας αὐτοῦ τῆς πονηρᾶς, ζῆλον ἄδικον καὶ ἀσεβῆ ἀνειληφότας, ³ δἰ οὖ καὶ θάνατος εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸν κόσμον.

The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians. Clement of Rome. ed. Kirsopp Lake. London. 1912.

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Epistula I ad Corinthios (Greek) (Clement of Rome. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.)

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The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians Perseus (Clement of Rome. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.) — 3 focus

[1] All glory and enlargement was given to you,¹ and that which was written was fulfilled, My Beloved ate and drank, and he was enlarged and waxed fat and kicked.

[2] From this arose jealousy and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity.

[3] Thus the worthless rose up against those who were in honour, those of no reputation against the renowned, the foolish against the prudent, the young against the old.

[4] For this cause righteousness and peace are far removed, while each deserts the fear of God and the eye of faith in him has grown dim, and men walk neither in the ordinances of his commandments nor use their citizenship worthily of Christ, but each goes according to the lusts of his wicked heart, and has revived the unrighteousness and impious envy, by which also death came into the world.

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The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

1. Is. 3, 5

2. Is 59, 14

3. Wisd. 7, 21

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