{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Take up the epistle of the blessed Apostle Paul. What\r\ndid he write to you at the time when the gospel first began\r\nto be preached?<a id=\"r210\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f210\"><sup>[210]</sup></a> Truly, under the inspiration<a id=\"r211\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f211\"><sup>[211]</sup></a> of the\r\nSpirit, he wrote to you concerning himself, and Cephas,\r\nand Apollos,<a id=\"r212\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f212\"><sup>[212]</sup></a> because even then parties<a id=\"r213\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f213\"><sup>[213]</sup></a> had been formed\r\namong you. But that inclination for one above another entailed\r\nless guilt upon you, inasmuch as your partialities were\r\nthen shown towards apostles, already of high reputation, and\r\ntowards a man whom they had approved. But now reflect\r\nwho those are that have perverted you, and lessened the renown\r\nof your far-famed brotherly love. It is disgraceful,\r\nbeloved, yea, highly disgraceful, and unworthy of your Christian\r\nprofession,<a id=\"r214\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f214\"><sup>[214]</sup></a> that such a thing should be heard of as that\r\nthe most stedfast and ancient church of the Corinthians\r\nshould, on account of one or two persons, engage in sedition\r\nagainst its presbyters. And this rumour has reached not\r\nonly us, but those also who are unconnected<a id=\"r215\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f215\"><sup>[215]</sup></a> with us; so\r\nthat, through your infatuation, the name of the Lord is\r\nblasphemed, while danger is also brought upon yourselves.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xlvii.—Your recent discord is worse than the former which took place in the times of Paul."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-91"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f93dac2c54a5f75792952a67898ec96e36ca8b0e026300880b5a791620be1662","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f214","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f214","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f214\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r214\">214</a>. </span>Literally, “of conduct in Christ.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f214","text_sha256":"30628315c8cdaca5fcc0404d70aea7a896276e08c65ecafcbc4922a8013ba4c0","verified":false,"work_id":null}