PG001(col. 194-195): On the Two Epistles of the Roman Clement. Section VII.

(From the "Works of the apostolic Fathers" of Karl Josef von Hefele, <published> at Tubingen, 1842, in octavo)

 Author:  Karl Josef von Hefele

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     VII. Great among the ancients was the authority of our epistle, which Irenaeus calls "a most sufficient writing"[[37]], <and> Eusebius "great and wondrous"[[38]].  Dionysius of Corinth[[39]], Eusebius[[40]], Jerome[[41]], and Photius[[42]] testify that it had been publicly read out in several Churches, especially on Sundays.

     Photius himself <thought less of> it because Clement supposed that worlds across the ocean existed (chapter 20), used the example of the phoenix bird as true (chapter 25), and because calling our Lord Jesus Christ a Pontiff and Leader (chapter 36), [he had not brought forth those words about him <as> suitable for God and rather sublime].

Notes

37. "Against Heresies", 3, 3.

38. "Ecclesiastical History", 3, 16.

39. In Eusebius, "Ecclesiastical History", 4, 33.

40. "Ecclesiastical History", 3, 16.

41. "Catalog of Ecclesiastical Writers", chapter 15.

42. "Library", codex 113.