1 Letter of Clement 46
1 To such examples as these therefore, brethren, we also ought to cleave.
2 For it is written; Cleave unto the saints, for they that cleave unto them shall be sanctified.
3 And again He saith in another place; With the guiltless man thou shalt be guiltless, and with the elect thou shalt be elect, and with the crooked thou shalt deal crookedly.
4 Let us therefore cleave to the guiltless and righteous: and these are the elect of God.
5 Wherefore are there strifes and wraths and factions and divisions and war among you?
6 Have we not one God and one Christ and one Spirit of grace that was shed upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ?
7 Wherefore do we tear and rend asunder the members of Christ, and stir up factions against our own body, and reach such a pitch of folly, as to forget that we are members one of another?
8 Remember the words of Jesus our Lord: for He said, Woe unto that man; it were good for him if he had not been born, rather than that at he should offend one of Mine elect. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about him, and be cast into the sea, than that he should pervert one of Mine elect.
9 Your division hath perverted many; it hath brought many to despair, many to doubting, and all of us to sorrow. And your sedition still continueth.
