Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Two Epistles Concerning Virginity/First Pseudo-Clement/Chapter 1

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159561Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VII, Two Epistles Concerning Virginity, First Pseudo-Clement — Chapter 1Benjamin Plummer PrattenClement of Rome

Two Epistles Concerning Virginity.

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The First Epistle of the Blessed Clement, the Disciple of Peter the Apostle.

Chapter I.—The Salutation.

To all those who love and cherish their life in Christ through God the Father, and obey the truth of God in hope of eternal life; to those who bear affection towards their brethren and towards their neighbours in the love of God; to the blessed virgins,^[1] who devote themselves to preserve virginity “for the sake of the kingdom of heaven;”^[2] and to the holy virgins: the peace which is in God.^[3]

Footnotes

↑ In later Greek παρθένος was used of both sexes (comp. Rev. xiv. 4). The Syriac original employs both a masculine and a feminine form. This will not always be indicated in the following translation.
↑ Matt. xix. 12.
↑ Or “to the holy virgins who are in God: peace.” So Zingerle, and probably Wetstein.

[1] In later Greek παρθένος was used of both sexes (comp. Rev. xiv. 4). The Syriac original employs both a masculine and a feminine form. This will not always be indicated in the following translation.

[2] Matt. xix. 12.

[3] Or “to the holy virgins who are in God: peace.” So Zingerle, and probably Wetstein.

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