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In 1 Clement, the author appeals to the one God, the one Spirit and the one calling the Corinthians share, a formula close to the list in Ephesians 4. It does not prove Clement knew Ephesians, since earlier Christian letters use formulas like it.
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1000+ CE
Ephesians 4:4
New Testament
1 I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love, 3 making every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling, 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 46:6
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Early Christian
3 And again He says in another place; “With the guiltless person you shall be guiltless, and with the elect you shall be elect, and with the crooked you shall deal crookedly.” 4 Let us therefore cling to the guiltless and righteous: and these are the elect of God. 5 Why are there strifes and wraths and factions and divisions and war among you. 6 Have we not one God and one Christ and one Spirit of grace that was poured upon us? And is there not one calling in Christ. 7 Why do we tear and rend apart the members of Christ, and stir up factions against our own body, and reach such a pitch of folly, as to forget that we are members one of another.
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Notes and References
“... In this placing of God as supreme and Christ as unique agent, 1 Clement follows the characteristic conceptual scheme and worship dynamics reflected in the NT. Even the implicitly trinitarian expressions in 1 Clement 46.6 and 1 Clement 58.2 do not take us beyond equivalent expressions in earlier Christian texts in the NT (e.g., 2 Cor 13:13; Eph 4:4–6). The dominant christological titles Christ and Lord (kyrios) are likewise traditional ...”
Martin, Ralph P.
Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
(p. 313) InterVarsity Press, 1997
* The use of references are not endorsements of their contents. Please read the entirety of the provided reference(s) to understand the author's full intentions regarding the use of these texts.
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