“... The parallels between these passages are extremely suggestive, although perhaps not in themselves sufficient to demonstrate literary dependence. If Clement has used Paul, he echoes rather than quotes him, taking Paul’s hymn to love but adapting it to his own preferred vocabulary [...] for dealing with the situation in Corinth. The lack of direct parallels or quotations notwithstanding, it does seem likely that here Clement refers to Paul’s letter, and that his hearers in Corinth would have been expected to recognize the allusion. ...”

“... If the emphasis at the beginning and end of the encomium to love in 1 Clem. 49.1–5a and 49.6 is on God’s love for humans, the same cannot be said of 49.5b, where “love has no schism” (σχίσμα), an allusion to Corinthian factionalism (cf. 2.6; 46.9; 54.2), where “love does not cause division” (οὐ στασιάζει), precisely the opposite of the seditious action against the Corinthian presbyters (47.6; cf. 4.12; 43.2; 46.7; 51.3; 55.1), and where “love does all things in harmony” (ποιεῖ ἐν ὁμονοία), a virtue that the author consistently hopes to inculcate among his Corinthian readers ...”