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| Chapter LVII.—Let the authors of sedition submit themselves.
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Chapter LVII.—Let the authors of
sedition submit themselves.
Ye therefore, who laid the
foundation of this sedition, submit yourselves to the presbyters, and
receive correction so as to repent, bending the knees of your hearts.
Learn to be subject, laying aside the proud and arrogant self-confidence
of your tongue. For it is better for you that ye should occupy255
| 255 Literally, “to be found
small and esteemed.” | a humble but honourable place in
the flock of Christ, than that, being highly exalted, ye should be cast
out from the hope of His people.256
| 256 Literally, “His hope.” [It has been
conjectured that ἔλπιδος should be
ἔπαύλιδος, and
the reading, “out of the fold of his people.” See
Chevallier.] | For thus speaketh all-virtuous Wisdom:257
“Behold, I will bring forth to you the words
of My Spirit, and I will teach you My speech. Since I called, and ye did
not hear; I held forth My words, and ye regarded not, but set at naught
My counsels, and yielded not at My reproofs; therefore I too will laugh
at your destruction; yea, I will rejoice when ruin cometh upon you, and
when sudden confusion overtakes you, when overturning presents itself
like a tempest, or when tribulation and oppression fall upon you. For it
shall come to pass, that when ye call upon Me, I will not hear you; the
wicked shall seek Me, and they shall not find Me. For they hated wisdom,
and did not choose the fear of the Lord; nor would they listen to My
counsels, but despised My reproofs. Wherefore they shall eat the fruits
of their own way, and they shall be filled with their own
ungodliness.” …258
| 258 Junius (Pat. Young), who examined the ms. before it was bound into its
present form, stated that a whole leaf was here lost. The next letters
that occur are ιπον, which have been
supposed to indicate εἶπον or ἔλιπον. Doubtless
some passages quoted by the ancients from the Epistle of Clement, and not
now found in it, occurred in the portion which has thus been lost.
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