Apocrypha · Chapter 55 of 65
Letter to the Corinthians
Let us take examples from the pagans themselves. Many kings and princes, at a time of pestilence, being ordered by some oracle, delivered themselves to death to free their citizens by their own blood.
2Many withdrew from their own cities, so that there would be no more sedition.
3We know that many among us delivered themselves to prison, to free others.
4Many sold themselves into slavery and, receiving the price of themselves, fed others.
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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.