The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Clement of Rome · 96 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
4 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
Sentences remembered from it
- Clement of Rome ANF I, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter XLIV
- Clement of Rome ANF I, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter XXIV
- Clement of Rome ANF I, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter XLIX
- Clement of Rome ANF I, The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Chapter V
The letter Rome sent to Corinth when a group of presbyters there had been deposed by a younger faction — the earliest Christian writing outside the New Testament that can be dated with any confidence, and the earliest text to argue that the apostles appointed successors and gave instructions for the succession to continue after them.