among the brethren in Corinth, the Church in Rome sent a most important
letter to the Corinthians, urging them to return to peace, renewing {80}
their faith, and [reminding them of] the tradition which had been so
lately received from the Apostles." [Euseb. Eccl. Hist. v. c. 6.]

[Footnote 26: See St. Paul to the Philippians, iv. 3. "And I
entreat thee also, true yoke-fellow, help those women which
laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with
other my fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of
life."]

Of the many works which have been attributed to Clement, it is now
generally agreed, that one, and only one, can be safely received as
genuine, whilst some maintain that even that one is not altogether free
from interpolations, if not itself spurious[27]. But though we must
believe the other works to have been assigned improperly to Clement; yet
I have not thought it safe to pass them by unexamined, both because some
of them are held in high estimation by writers of the Church of Rome,
and especially because whatever pen first composed them, of their very
great antiquity there can be entertained no reasonable doubt. Indeed,
the Apostolical Canons, and the Apostolical Constitutions, both ascribed
to Clement as their author, acting under the direction of the Apostolic
Council, stand first among the records of the Councils received by the
Church of Rome.

[Footnote 27: Archbishop Wake concludes that this first Epistle
was written shortly after the end of Nero's persecution, and
before A.D. 70.]

To Clement's first Epistle to the Corinthians, now regarded by many as