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In 1 Clement, the author quotes Proverbs 2 in the Greek Septuagint translation, where the good keep the land and wrongdoers are removed from it, as a reason to side with the peaceful and not with the leaders of the revolt.
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LXX Proverbs 2:21
Septuagint
16 to set you far from the straight way and make you a stranger from righteous intention. Son, do not let bad counsel overtake you, 17 which abandons the teaching of youth and has forgotten the divine covenant, 18 for she has set her house close by death and her paths close by Hades with the shades. 19 All who go in it will not return, and they would never attain to straight paths, for they are not seized by years of life; 20 for if they proceeded on good paths, they would find smooth paths of righteousness; 21 because the upright will inhabit the land, and the pious will be left in it; 22 the ways of the ungodly will be destroyed from the earth, and the lawless will be thrust out of it.
Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 14:4
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
* 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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