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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 VIII.—Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife; Of What Kind Love to Females Ought to Be.
There is Joseph, faithful, and intelligent, and wise, and who feared God in everything. Did not a woman conceive an excessive passion for the beauty of this chaste and upright man? And, when he would not yield and consent to gratify her passionate desire,39 Lit. “her passion and her desire.” she cast the righteous man into every kind of distress and torment, to within a little of death,40 Lit. “even to death.” by bearing false witness. But God delivered him from all the evils that came upon him through this wretched woman. Ye see, my brethren, what distresses the constant sight of the person of the Egyptian woman brought upon the righteous man. Therefore, let us not be constantly with women, nor with maidens. For this is not profitable for those who truly wish to “gird up their loins.”41 Luke xii. 35. For it is required that we love the sisters in all purity and chasteness, and with all curbing of thought, in the fear of God, not associating constantly with them, nor finding access to them at every hour.