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Clement of Rome

Second Epistle of Clement

c. AD 120-160 · 12 chapters

Probably the oldest surviving Christian sermon outside the New Testament, urging repentance and holy living. It was passed down with 1 Clement under Clement's name, though most scholars think it is by a different author.

This translation was made in 1870 from a manuscript that had lost its ending. A fuller manuscript was published in 1875, so some closing chapters found in modern editions are missing here. This translation stops at chapter 12; the letter has twenty chapters in modern editions.

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5. 5
6. 6
7. 7
8. 8
9. 9
10. 10
11. 11
12. 12

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.