explains what concerns our worship and is most helpful for
CLEMENT OF RoME
62. What we have written to you, brethren, sufficiently explains what concerns our worship and is most helpful for a virtuous life to those who wish to live piously and dutifully.
2 For, concerning faith and repentance and genuine charity and self-control and sobriety and patient endurance—we have touched upon every subject, and reminded you that you are in duty bound to please Almighty God through piety and truth and long-suffering: you are to live in concord, without bearing malice, in love and peace, joined to constant forbearance.
In this manner our forbears, mentioned above, were acceptable and cherished a humble frame of mind toward the Father and God and Creator and all mankind.
3 And we have all the more pleasure in recalling this to your memory because we are well aware that we are writing to persons who are believers and highly distinguished and deeply versed in the writings *® that contain God's educative revelation.
63. It is right, therefore, that we should adhere to so many and such notable examples and bow the neck**? and discharge the duty of obedience, so that, ceasing from that futile dissension, we may without any blame reach the goal set before us in truth. 2 You certainly will give us the keenest pleasure if you prove obedient to what we have written through the Holy Spirit, and extirpate the lawless passion of your jealousy in accordance with the pleas we have made in this letter for peace and concord. 3 We are sending trustworthy and prudent men, who have led blameless. lives among us from youth to old age, that they may be witnesses *™ between you and us. 4 We do this to make you feel that our whole care has been, and is, directed toward establishing speedy peace in your midst.