1 Clement (A Study) Chapter 3

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Continued from: 1 Clement (A Study) Chapter 2


CHAP. III.

Every kind of honour and happiness10 was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, “My beloved did eat and drink, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked.”11 Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years. For this reason righteousness and peace are now far departed from you, inasmuch as every one abandons the fear of God, and is become blind in His faith,12 neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment, nor acts a part becoming a Christian,13 but walks after his own wicked lusts, resuming the practice of an unrighteous and ungodly envy, by which death itself entered into the world.14

1 Clement (A Study) Chapter 4

 

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Footnotes:​

10. Literally, “enlargement.”
12. It seems necessary to refer αυτου to God, in opposition to the translation given
by Abp. Wake and others.
13. Literally, “ Christ;” comp. 2 Cor. i. 21, Eph. iv. 20.

 

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Well this chapter is chocked full of interesting goodies!

righteousness and peace are now far departed from you

What is righteousness?


Definition of righteous

1 : acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin
Definition of RIGHTEOUS

It's clear that the headship of the early Ecclesia had not departed from YHWH's eternal Torah.

inasmuch as every one abandons the fear of God, and is become blind in His faith,

Is departing from the law, equivalent to becoming blind in faith אמונה?

For those who understand the meaning of this Hebrew word, outside the influence of Greek philosophy, the answer should be glaringly clear.

neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment

Clement admonishes those who do nor adhere to the ordinances of YHWH's eternal Moedim. You don't hear too much about this from most modern preachers.

nor acts a part becoming a Christian,13

13. Literally, “ Christ;” comp. 2 Cor. i. 21, Eph. iv. 20.

Becoming a Christ?

Now this doctrine of the early ecclesia, I have heard from no modern Pastor.

Shabbat shalom.