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Clement of Rome, The Second Epistle of the Same Clement
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The Second Epistle of the Same Clement.
The Second Epistle of the Same Clement.
Chapter II.—His Behaviour in Places Where There Were Christians of Both Sexes.
Chapter IV.—Conduct of the Holy Man Where There are Women Only.
Chapter VI.—How Christians Should Behave Themselves Among Heathens.
Chapter VII.—Uses of Considering Admonitory Examples, as Well as Instructive Patterns.
Chapter VIII.—Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife Of What Kind Love to Females Ought to Be.
Chapter IX.—Samson’s Admonitory Fall.
Chapter X.—David’s Sin, So Admonitory to Us Weak Men.
Chapter XI.—Admonitory History of the Incestuous Children of David.
Chapter XII.—Solomon’s Infatuation Through Women.
Chapter XIII.—The History of Susanna Teaches Circumspection with the Eyes and in Society.
Chapter XIV.—Examples of Circumspect Behaviour from the Old Testament.
Chapter XV.—The Example of Jesus How We May Allow Ourselves to Be Served by Women.
Chapter XVI.—Exhortation to Union and to Obedience Conclusion.
Chapter VII.—Uses of Considering Admonitory Examples, as Well as Instructive Patterns.
Let us consider, therefore, my brethren, and see how all the righteous fathers conducted themselves during the whole time of their sojourn in this life, and let us search and examine from the law down to the New Testament. For this is both becoming and profitable, that we should know how many men there have been, and who they were, that have perished through women; and who and how many have been the women that have perished through men, by reason of the constancy with which they have associated with one another. And further, also, for the same reason, I will show how many have been the men, and who they were, that lived all their lifetime, and continued even to the close, with one another in the performance of chaste works without blemish. And it is manifest and well-known that this is so.38 Wetstein and Zingerle join on this sentence to the next, by a change of the construction.