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Clement – Second Epistle

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SECOND CLEMENT (2 Clement)
Translated by J.B. Lightfoot.

2Clem 1:1
Brethren, we ought so to think of Jesus Christ, as of God, as of the
Judge of quick and dead.

2Clem 1:2
And we ought not to think mean things of our Salvation: for when we
think mean things of Him, we expect also to receive mean things. And
they that listen as concerning mean things do wrong; and we ourselves
do wrong, not knowing whence and by whom and unto what place we were
called, and how many things Jesus Christ endured to suffer for our
sakes.

2Clem 1:3
What recompense then shall we give unto Him? Or what fruit worthy of
His own gift to us? And how many mercies do we owe to Him!

2Clem 1:4
For He bestowed the light upon us; He spake to us, as a father to his
sons; He saved us, when we were perishing.

2Clem 1:5
What praise then shall we give to Him? Or what payment of recompense
for those things which we received?

2Clem 1:6
We who were maimed in our understanding, and worshipped stocks and
stones and gold and silver and bronze, the works of men; and our
whole life was nothing else but death. While then we were thus
wrapped in darkness and oppressed with this thick mist in our vision,
we recovered our sight, putting off by His will the cloud wherein we
were wrapped.

2Clem 1:7
For He had mercy on us, and in His compassion saved us, having beheld
in us much error and perdition, even when we had no hope of
salvation, save that which came from Him.

2Clem 1:8
For He called us, when we were not, and from not being He willed us
to be.

2Clem 2:1
Rejoice, thou barren that barest not. Break out and cry, thou that
travailest not; for more are the children of the desolate than of
her that hath the husband. In that He said Rejoice, thou barren
that barest not, He spake of us: for our Church was barren, before
that children were given unto her.

2Clem 2:2
And in that He said, Cry aloud, thou that travailest not, He
meaneth this; Let us not, like women in travail, grow weary of
offering up our prayers with simplicity to God.

2Clem 2:3
Again, in that He said, For the children of the desolate are more
than of her that hath the husband, He so spake, because our people
seemed desolate and forsaken of God, whereas now, having believed, we
have become more than those who seemed to have God.

2Clem 2:4
Again another scripture saith, I came not to call the righteous,
but sinners.

2Clem 2:5
He meaneth this; that it is right to save them that are perishing.

2Clem 2:6
For this indeed is a great and marvelous work, to establish, not
those things which stand, but those which are falling.

2Clem 2:7
So also Christ willed to save the things which were perishing And He
saved many, coming and calling us when we were even now perishing.

2Clem 3:1
Seeing then that He bestowed so great mercy on us; first of all,
that we, who are living, do not sacrifice to these dead gods, neither
worship them, but through Him have known the Father of truth. What
else is this knowledge to Himward, but not to deny Him through whom
we have known Him?

2Clem 3:2
Yea, He Himself saith, Whoso confesseth Me, Him will I confess
before the Father.

2Clem 3:3
This then is our reward, if verily we shall confess Him through whom
we were saved.

2Clem 3:4
But wherein do we confess Him? When we do that which He saith and are
not disobedient unto His commandments, and not only honor Him
with our lips, but with our whole heart and with our whole
mind.

2Clem 3:5
Now He saith also in Isaiah, This people honoreth me with their
lips, but their heart is far from Me.

2Clem 4:1
Let us therefore not only call Him Lord, for this will not save us:

2Clem 4:2
for He saith, Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, shall be
saved, but he that doeth righteousness.

2Clem 4:3
So then, brethren, let us confess Him in our works, by loving one
another, by not committing adultery nor speaking evil one against
another nor envying, but being temperate, merciful, kindly. And we
ought to have fellow-feeling one with another and not to be covetous.
By these works let us confess Him, and not by the contrary.

2Clem 4:4
And we ought not rather to fear men but God.

2Clem 4:5
For this cause, if ye do these things, the Lord said, Though ye be
gathered together with Me in My bosom, and do not My commandments,
I will cast you away and will say unto you, Depart from Me, I know
you not whence ye are, ye workers of iniquity.

Whole Writing –
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