Apocrypha · Chapter 4 of 65
Letter to the Corinthians
For this reason righteousness and peace have departed, while each one has abandoned the fear of God and become blind in his faith, not walking according to the ordinances of his commandments nor living as befits Christ, but each one walks according to the desires of his wicked heart.
2Let us take the ancient examples. Why did our father Jacob flee from his brother Esau? Was it not because of jealousy? Because of jealousy our father Jacob had to flee from the face of Esau his brother.
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About 1 Clement
A letter from the church of Rome to the church of Corinth around the year 96, trying to reverse the deposition of presbyters. The oldest Christian document outside the New Testament.