First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
- Authors
- Rome, Clement Of
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing
- Tags
- religion , history
- ISBN
- 9781419162343
- Date
- 2010-11-28T03:59:14+00:00
- Size
- 0.42 MB
- Lang
- en
To these men who spent their lives in the practice of holiness, there is to be added a great multitude of the elect, who, having through envy endured many indignities and tortures, furnished. us with a most excellent example. Through envy, those women, the Danaids(18) and Dircae, being persecuted, after they had suffered terrible and unspeakable torments, finished the course of their faith with stedfastness, (19) and though weak in body, received a noble reward.