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The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians · Chapter XXXI

Let Us See by What Means We May Obtain the Divine Blessing

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Let us cleave then to His blessing, and consider what are the means124 of possessing it. Let us think125 over the things which have taken place from the beginning. For what reason was our father Abraham blessed? was it not because he wrought righteousness and truth through faith?126 Isaac, with perfect confidence, as if knowing what was to happen,127 cheerfully yielded himself as a sacrifice.128 Jacob, through reason129 of his brother, went forth with humility from his own land, and came to Laban and served him; and there was given to him the sceptre of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Notes

  1. 124

    Literally, "what are the ways of His blessing."

  2. 125

    Literally, "unroll."

  3. 126

    Comp. .

  4. 127

    Some translate, "knowing what was to come."

  5. 128

  6. 129

    So Jacobson: Wotton reads, "fleeing from his brother."

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.