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In 1 Clement, the author quotes Isaiah 26 from the Greek Septuagint translation, about hiding until the anger of God has passed, as scriptural support for the hope that people made perfect in love will be revealed when the kingdom of Jesus arrives.
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LXX Isaiah 26:20
Septuagint
17 And as a woman in travail is about to give birth and cries out in her pangs, so were we to your beloved because of the fear of you, O Lord. We conceived and travailed and gave birth; we produced a wind of your salvation on the earth, but those who dwell on the earth will fall. 19 The dead shall rise, and those who are in the tombs shall be raised, and those who are in the earth shall rejoice; for the dew from you is healing to them, but the land of the impious shall fall. 20 Go, my people, enter your chambers; shut your door; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath of the Lord has passed.
Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 50:3
First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Early Christian
3 For it is written; “Enter into the inner chamber for a very little while, until My anger and My wrath shall pass away, and I will remember a good day and will raise you from your tombs.” 4 Blessed were we, dearly beloved, if we should be doing the commandments of God in concord of love, to the end that our sins may through love be forgiven us. 5 For it is written; “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall impute no sin, neither is deceit in his mouth.” 6 This declaration of blessedness was pronounced upon those that have been elected by God through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
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Notes and References
“... Blamelessness in love, a human virtue, is the opposite of human strife. Moreover, after expressing the hope that those perfected in love by God’s grace will be revealed at the visitation of Christ’s kingdom in verse 3 and providing scriptural support for that hope by citing Isa 26:20 in verse 4, the author of 1 Clement then states, “We are blessed, beloved, if we keep the commandments of God in the harmony of love, so that through love our sins may be forgiven” (50.5). ...”
Downs, David J.
Alms: Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity
(p. 183) Baylor University Press, 2016
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