J. B. Lightfoot

1 Clement 46

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1 To such examples as these therefore, brethren, we also ought to cleave.

2 For it is written; Cleave unto the saints, for they that cleave unto them shall be sanctified.

3 And again He saith in another place; With the guiltless man thou shalt be guiltless, and with the elect thou shalt be elect, and with the crooked thou shalt deal crookedly.

4 Let us therefore cleave to the guiltless and righteous: and these are the elect of God.

5 Wherefore are there strifes and wraths and factions and divisions and war among you?

6 Have we not one God and one Christ and one Spirit of grace that was shed upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ?

7 Wherefore do we tear and rend asunder the members of Christ, and stir up factions against our own body, and reach such a pitch of folly, as to forget that we are members one of another?

8 Remember the words of Jesus our Lord: for He said, Woe unto that man; it were good for him if he had not been born, rather than that at he should offend one of Mine elect. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about him, and be cast into the sea, than that he should pervert one of Mine elect.

9 Your division hath perverted many; it hath brought many to despair, many to doubting, and all of us to sorrow. And your sedition still continueth.

Text: J. B. Lightfoot. Public-domain translation by J. B. Lightfoot (1828–1889), transcribed by CCEL. Chapter divisions and paragraph order are retained; prologues are presented separately. Translation details.