The library · Edition and sources
1 Clement
J. B. Lightfoot · Translated text
1 Clem. 37
Let us therefore enlist ourselves, brethren, with all earnestness in His faultless ordinances.
Let us mark the soldiers that are enlisted under our rulers, how exactly, how readily, how submissively, they execute the orders given them.
All are not prefects, nor rulers of thousands, nor rulers of hundreds, nor rulers of fifties, and so forth; but each man in his own rank executeth the orders given by the king and the governors.
The great without the small cannot exist, neither the small without the great. There is a certain mixture in all things, and therein is utility.
Let us take our body as an example. The head without the feet is nothing; so likewise the feet without the head are nothing: even the smallest limbs of our body are necessary and useful for the whole body: but all the members conspire and unite in subjection, that the whole body maybe saved.
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