23 Nov: Clement of Rome

23 November.  1662 Book of Common Prayer.  Each year on 23 Nov, Clement of Rome is reviewed on the day of remembrance.  His inclusion is warranted.  Exclusion of others needs to be effected, e.g. Laud, with inclusion of others, e.g. Calvin, Luther, etc.

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Clement, Presiding Presbyter and Bishop (of Rome) in the first century A.D. According to Irenæus, he was the third after the death of Peter and Paul. Eusebius places Clement’s death in A.D. 95 or 100. The old tradition, from Origen downwards (uncertain but not improbable), makes him the "Clement the fellow labourer" of St. Paul (Phil. iv. 3). His Epistle to the Corinthians, written late in the first century (and at one time read as of almost canonical authority), is of deep interest and historical value in relation to the Scriptural Epistles.  One will discern very obvious affinities with Paul’s theology of God, sin, justification by faith alone, election and predestination from before the world. Clement sounds nearwise like Paul; he clearly understood Paul's canonical and governing theology.  This cannot be good news to Semi-Pelagians, Arminians, Tractoes and Costalizers. Clement is not good news to Anglicoes trying fervently to bury the Thirty-nine Articles (and who have succeeded in the West). It ends with a noble prayer, perhaps the first specimen of a Christian liturgy. Of his life and death little is known. Varied introductions are given in the online resources below.

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/1clement.html

Estimated Range of Dating: 80-140 A.D.

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Online Text for First Clement

·         English Translation of 1 Clement by J. B. Lightfoot

·         English Translation of 1 Clement by Charles Hoole

·         English Translation of 1 Clement by Roberts-Donaldson

·         Greek of Clement's Epistle to the Corinthians from J. B. Lightfoot

Online Resources for First Clement

·         Kirsopp Lake's Introduction to 1 Clement

·         Roberts-Donaldson Introduction to 1 Clement

·         Handbook of Patrology: St. Clement

·         The Ecole Glossary: Clement of Rome

·         Catholic Encyclopedia: Clement I, Saint and Pope

·         Glenn Davis: I Clement

·         EarlyChurchFathers.com Introduction

·         Alban Butler Hagiography

·         Clement of Rome, Bishop

·         Fact Sheet on Clement

·         1 Clement and the Ignatiana in Dutch Radical Criticism

·         First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Offline Resources for First Clement

·         Johannes Quasten, Epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch (Paulist Press 1946).