Codex: Clement of Rome
Book: Second Clement
5:1 Wherefore, brethren, let us forsake our sojourn in this world and do the will of Him that called us, and let us not be afraid to depart out of this world.
5:2 For the Lord saith, Ye shall be as lambs in the midst of wolves.
5:3 But Peter answered and said unto Him, What then, if the wolves should tear the lambs?
5:4 Jesus said unto Peter, Let not the lambs fear the wolves after they are dead; and ye also, fear ye not them that kill you and are not able to do anything to you; but fear Him that after ye are dead hath power over soul and body, to cast them into the Gehenna of fire.
5:5 And ye know, brethren, that the sojourn of this flesh in this world is mean and for a short time, but the promise of Christ is great and marvelous, even the rest of the kingdom that shall be and of life eternal.
5:6 What then can we do to obtain them, but walk in holiness and righteousness, and consider these worldly things as alien to us, and not desire them?
5:7 For when we desire to obtain these things we fall away from the righteous path.
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