THE

FIRST EPISTLE

O F

CLEMENS ROMANUS

TO THE

CHURCH

A T

CORINTH.

ABERDEEN:

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IT

INTRODUCTION.

is almoft univerfally believed, that The First Epistle of Clemens Romanus to the Church at Corinth is of very high antiquity, and bears the characters of primitive fimplicity.

SOME learned men fay that it was written in the fixty-fifth year after the birth of Christ. From fome hints in the epiftle, there is reafon to believe, that it was fent to the Corinthian church before Jerufalem was destroyed by Titus, A. D. 70. as Clement speaks of the worship of God in the temple, refers to the offerings of the priests at the altar, and mentions Peter and Paul as lately dead.

REFERENCES to, and quotations from, this epiftle, are often to be found among the early writers for Christianity.

As