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First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Chapter 52

Such a confession is pleasing to God.

The Lord, brethren, stands in need of nothing; and He desires nothing of any one, except that confession be made to Him. For, says the elect David, “I will confess unto the Lord; and that will please Him more than a young bullock that hath horns and hoofs. Let the poor see it, and be glad.”1 And again he saith, “Offer2 unto God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows unto the Most High. And call upon me in the day of thy trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”3 For “the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.”4

Notes

  1. Ps. lxix. 31, 32.↩
  2. Or, “sacrifice.”↩
  3. Ps. l. 14, 15.↩
  4. Ps. li. 17.↩

Translation by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and Frederick Crombie: The Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1870).
Text from Project Gutenberg eBook #77576, proofread by Distributed Proofreaders from Internet Archive scans. Public domain.