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15 Clemens the bishop PL 23, 631
Clement, of whom the apostle Paul writing to the Philippians says “With Clement and others of my fellow-workers whose names are written in the book of life,” the fourth bishop of Rome after Peter, if indeed the second was Linus and the third Anacletus, although most of the Latins think that Clement was second after the apostle. He wrote, on the part of the church of Rome, an especially valuable Letter to the church of the Corinthians, which in some places is publicly read, and which seems to me to agree in style with the epistle to the Hebrews which passes under the name of Paul but it differs from this same epistle, not only in many of its ideas, but also in respect of the order of words, and its likeness in either respect is not very great. There is also a second Epistle under his name which is rejected by earlier writers, and a Disputation between Peter and Appion written out at length, which Eusebius in the third book of his Church history rejects. He died in the third year of Trajan and a church built at Rome preserves the memory of his name unto this day.
Clemens, de quo Apostolus Paulus ad Philippenses scribens, ait, Cum Clemente et caeteris cooperatoribus meis, quorum nomina scripta sunt in libro vitae , quartus post Petrum Romae episcopus: siquidem secundus Linus fuit, tertius Anacletus, tametsi plerique Latinorum, secundum post Petrum Apostolum putent fuisse Clementem. Scripsit ex persona Romanae Ecclesiae ad Ecclesiam Corinthiorum valde utilem Epistolam, quae et in nonnullis locis publice legitur, quae mihi videtur characteri Epistolae, quae sub Pauli nomine ad Hebraeos fertur, convenire. Sed et multis de eadem Epistola, non solum sensibus, sed juxta verborum quoque ordinem abutitur. Omnino grandis in utraque similitudo est. Fertur et secunda ejus nomine Epistola, quae a veteribus reprobatur. Et Disputatio Petri et Appionis longo sermone conscripta, quam Eusebius in tertio historiae Ecclesiasticae volumine coarguit. Obiit tertio Trajani anno, et nominis ejus memoriam usque hodie Romae exstructa Ecclesia custodit.
Κλήμης, περὶ οὗ Παῦλος ὁ Ἀπόστολος πρὸς Φιλιππησίους γράφων, λέγει· Μετὰ καὶ Κλήμεντος. Τέταρτος μετὰ Πέτρον Ῥώμης Ἐπίσκοπος. Δεύτερος γὰρ Λῖνος ἐγένετο, τρίτος Ἀνέγκλητος, εἰ καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ὐπολαμβάνουσι, δεύτερον μετὰ τὸν Ἀπόστολον γεγενῆσθαι Κλήμεντα. Ἔγραψεν ἐκ προσώπου τῆς ἐκκλησίας Ῥώμης πρὸς τὴν ἐν Κορίνθῳ ἐκκλησίαν Ἐπιστολὴν πάνυ θαυμαστὴν, ἥτις ἐν φανεροῖς τόποις δημοσίᾳ ἀναγινώσκεται, τῷ χαρακτῆρι τῆς πρὸς Ἑβραίους Ἐπιστολῆς Παῦλου συνᾴδουσα οὐ μόνον νοήμασιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ λόγοις. Καὶ ἁπλῶς μεγίστη ἐστὶν ἐν ἑκατέρᾳ ὁμοίωσις. Φέρεται καὶ ἑτέρα ἐξ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ εἶναι Ἐπιστολὴ, ἥτις παρὰ πάντων ἀποδοκιμάζεται. Καὶ διάλογος Πέτρου καὶ Ἀπίωνος μακρῷ λόγῳ συνταγεῖσα, ἥντινα Εὐσέβιος εὐθύνει, ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱστορίας τεύχει. Τελευτᾷ τῷ τρίτῳ ἐνιαυτῷ Τραϊανοῦ, καὶ τὴν τούτου μνήμην ἄχρι τήμερον ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ οἰκοδομηθεῖσα ἐκκλησία φυλάττει.