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The First Epistle of Clement (Ancient Greek: Κλήμεντος πρὸς Κορινθίους, romanized: Klēmentos pros Korinthious, lit. 'Clement to Corinthians') is a letter addressed to the Christians in the city of Corinth. The work is attributed to Clement I, the fourth bishop of Rome and almost certainly written by him. [1]
Clement's only extant, uncontested text is a letter to the Christian congregation in Corinth, often called the First Epistle of Clement or 1 Clement. The history of 1 Clement clearly and continuously shows Clement as the author of this letter. It is considered the earliest authentic Christian document outside the New Testament.
The homily known as 2 Clement was traditionally attributed to Pope Clement I of Rome. The Second Epistle of Clement (Ancient Greek: Κλήμεντος πρὸς Κορινθίους, romanized: Klēmentos pros Korinthious, lit. 'from Clement to Corinthians'), often referred to as 2 Clement (pronounced "Second Clement"), is an early Christian ...
Doubts about the authorship of the letter had already been expressed in antiquity by Eusebius and Jerome. [14] [15] Whereas 1 Clement was an epistle, 2 Clement appears to be a transcript of an oral homily or sermon, [9] making it the oldest surviving Christian sermon outside of the New Testament. [citation needed]
A Third Epistle to the Corinthians, once considered canonical by the Armenian Apostolic Church, now almost universally believed to be pseudepigraphical Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Epistles to the Corinthians .
The Epistles of Clement are two letters ascribed to Clement of Rome (fl. 96): First Epistle of Clement; Second Epistle of Clement, not by the same author; "Epistle of Clement" may also refer to: Ethiopic Clement, an epistle traditionally attributed as written by the apostle Peter to Clement; part of the wider Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon
Despite the attributed title "1 Corinthians", this letter was not the first written by Paul to the church in Corinth, only the first canonical letter. 1 Corinthians is the second known letter of four from Paul to the church in Corinth, as evidenced by Paul's mention of his previous letter in 1 Corinthians 5:9. [26]
The precedence of 1 Clement was challenged by R. Falconer, [61] while L. T. Johnson challenged the linguistic analysis as based on the arbitrary grouping of the three epistles together: he argued that this obscures the alleged similarities between 1 Timothy and 1 Corinthians, between Titus and the other travel letters, and between 2 Timothy and ...