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In 1 Clement, the author quotes Psalm 37 in the Greek Septuagint translation, where a powerful wicked man soon disappears, as a warning about the men who made themselves leaders in Corinth and a promise that the peaceful will outlast them.
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LXX Psalms 36:35
Septuagint
34 Wait upon the Lord and keep his way, and he will raise you up to inherit the earth. You will see when sinners are utterly destroyed. 35 I did see an ungodly person exalted exceedingly and magnified as the cedars of Lebanon. 36 But I passed by, and look, he was not there. And I sought for him, but his place was not found. 37 Keep innocence and see uprightness, because there is posterity for a peaceful person. 38 But the lawless ones will be utterly destroyed together. The posterity of the ungodly will be utterly destroyed. 39 But salvation of the righteous is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of tribulation.
Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 14:5
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Early Christian
2 For we shall bring upon us no common harm, but rather great peril, if we surrender ourselves recklessly to the purposes of men who launch out into strife and seditions, so as to estrange us from that which is right. 3 Let us be good one towards another according to the compassion and sweetness of Him that made us. For it is written. 4 “The good shall be dwellers in the land, and the innocent shall be left on it but they that transgress shall be destroyed utterly from it.” 5 And again He says “I saw the ungodly lifted up on high and exalted as the cedars of Lebanon. And I passed by, and behold he was not, and sought out his place, and I found it not. Keep innocence and behold uprightness; for there is a remnant for the peaceful man.”
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Notes and References
“... Humility is taught in 1 Clement 13–15 by a combination of OT texts (Jer 9:23–24; Is 66:2; Prov 2:21–22 [cf. Ps 36:9, 38]; Ps 36:35–37; Is 29:13; Ps 61:5; 77:36–37; 30:19; 11:4–6 LXX) with sayings of Jesus (1 Clem. 13.2) and in 1 Clement 16–18 by the examples of Christ (Is 53 quoted in entirety as an indication of Christ’s humility), three prophets (Elijah, Elisha and Ezekiel) and four others (Abraham, Job, Moses and David). ...”
Martin, Ralph P.
Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
(p. 1196) InterVarsity Press, 1997
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