“Let us contemplate, beloved, the resurrection which is at all times taking place. Day…”
Let us contemplate, beloved, the resurrection which is at all times taking place. Day and night declare to us a resurrection. The night sinks to sleep, and the day arises; the day [again] departs, and the night comes on.
Clement of Rome · The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians · ANF I, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter XXIV
Clement argues the resurrection from things that happen every day — night and morning, the seed dying in the ground — rather than from prophecy, in the chapter that leads into his account of the phoenix.
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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
In the letter's own text in the ANF volume the project holds, in the region and chapter the locator names, and printed without quotation marks.
Read in Roberts & Donaldson, ANF vol. 1 (1885) · Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, revised by A. Cleveland Coxe
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