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# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 36

Chapter XXXVI.—All Blessings are Given to Us Through Christ.
This is the way, beloved, in which we find our Saviour, even Jesus Christ, the High Priest of all our offerings, the defender and helper of our infirmity. By Him we look up to the heights of heaven. By Him we behold, as in a glass, His immaculate and most excellent visage. By Him are the eyes of our hearts opened. By Him our foolish and darkened understanding blossoms up anew towards His marvellous light. By Him the Lord has willed that we should taste of immortal knowledge, “who, being the brightness of His majesty, is by so much greater than the angels, as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” For it is thus written, “Who maketh His angels spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire.” But concerning His Son the Lord spoke thus: “Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten Thee.  Ask of me, and I will give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.” And again He saith to Him, “Sit Thou at my right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool.” But who are His enemies? All the wicked, and those who set themselves to oppose the will of God.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Literally, “that which saves us.”
* ↑ Or, “rejoices to behold.”
* ↑ Or, “knowledge of immortality.”
* ↑ Heb. i. 3, 4.
* ↑ Ps. civ. 4; Heb. i. 7.
* ↑ Some render, “to the Son.”
* ↑ Ps. ii. 7, 8; Heb. i. 5.
* ↑ Ps. cx. 1; Heb. i. 13.
* ↑ Some read, “who oppose their own will to that of God.”
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 37

Chapter XXXVII.—Christ is Our Leader, and We His Soldiers.
Let us then, men and brethren, with all energy act the part of soldiers, in accordance with His holy commandments. Let us consider those who serve under our generals, with what order, obedience, and submissiveness they perform the things which are commanded them. All are not prefects, nor commanders of a thousand, nor of a hundred, nor of fifty, nor the like, but each one in his own rank performs the things commanded by the king and the generals. The great cannot subsist without the small, nor the small without the great. There is a kind of mixture in all things, and thence arises mutual advantage. Let us take our body for an example. The head is nothing without the feet, and the feet are nothing without the head; yea, the very smallest members of our body are necessary and useful to the whole body. But all work harmoniously together, and are under one common rule for the preservation of the whole body.

## Footnotes

* ↑ I. ἑκτικῶς (habitually).
* ↑ Literally, “in these there is use.”
* ↑ 1 Cor. xii. 12, etc.
* ↑ Literally, “all breathe together.”
* ↑ Literally, “use one subjection.”
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 39

Chapter XXXIX.—There is No Reason for Self-Conceit.
Foolish and inconsiderate men, who have neither wisdom nor instruction, mock and deride us, being eager to exalt themselves in their own conceits. For what can a mortal man do, or what strength is there in one made out of the dust? For it is written, “There was no shape before mine eyes, only I heard a sound, and a voice [saying], What then? Shall a man be pure before the Lord? Or shall such an one be [counted] blameless in his deeds, seeing He does not confide in His servants, and has charged even His angels with perversity? The heaven is not clean in His sight: how much less they that dwell in houses of clay, of which also we ourselves were made! He smote them as a moth; and from morning even until evening they endure not. Because they could furnish no assistance to themselves, they perished. He breathed upon them, and they died, because they had no wisdom. But call now, if any one will answer thee, or if thou wilt look to any of the holy angels; for wrath destroys the foolish man, and envy killeth him that is in error.  I have seen the foolish taking root, but their habitation was presently consumed. Let their sons be far from safety; let them be despised before the gates of those less than themselves, and there shall be none to deliver.  For what was prepared for them, the righteous shall eat; and they shall not be delivered from evil.”

## Footnotes

* ↑ I omits καὶ ἀσύνετοι (and without understanding).
* ↑ Literally, “and silly and uninstructed.”
* ↑ Literally, “a breath.”
* ↑ Or, “has perceived.”
* ↑ Some render, “they perished at the gates.”
* ↑ Job iv. 16–18, 19–21, v. 1–5, xv. 15.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 4

Chapter IV.—Many Evils Have Already Flowed from This Source in Ancient Times.
For thus it is written: “And it came to pass after certain days, that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth a sacrifice unto God; and Abel also brought of the firstlings of his sheep, and of the fat thereof. And God had respect to Abel and to his offerings, but Cain and his sacrifices He did not regard. And Cain was deeply grieved, and his countenance fell. And God said to Cain, Why art thou grieved, and why is thy countenance fallen?  If thou offerest rightly, but dost not divide rightly, hast thou not sinned? Be at peace: thine offering returns to thyself, and thou shalt again possess it. And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go into the field. And it came to pass, while they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.” Ye see, brethren, how envy and jealousy led to the murder of a brother.  Through envy, also, our father Jacob fled from the face of Esau his brother. Envy made Joseph be persecuted unto death, and to come into bondage. Envy compelled Moses to flee from the face of Pharaoh king of Egypt, when he heard these words from his fellow-countryman, “Who made thee a judge or a ruler over us? Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?” On account of envy, Aaron and Miriam had to make their abode without the camp. Envy brought down Dathan and Abiram alive to Hades, through the sedition which they excited against God’s servant Moses. Through envy, David not only underwent the hatred of foreigners, but was also persecuted by Saul king of Israel.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Gen. iv. 3–8. The writer here, as always, follows the reading of the Septuagint, which in this passage both alters and adds to the Hebrew text. We have given the rendering approved by the best critics; but some prefer to translate, as in our English version, “unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.” See, for an ancient explanation of the passage, Irenæus, Adv. Hær., iv. 18, 3.
* ↑ Gen. xxvii. 41, etc.
* ↑ Gen. xxxvii.
* ↑ Ex. ii. 14.
* ↑ Num. xii. 14, 15.
* ↑ Num. xvi. 33.
* ↑ 1 Kings xviii. 8, etc.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 40

Chapter XL.—Let Us Preserve in the Church the Order Appointed by God.
These things therefore being manifest to us, and since we look into the depths of the divine knowledge, it behoves us to do all things in [their proper] order, which the Lord has commanded us to perform at stated times. He has enjoined offerings [to be presented] and service to be performed [to Him], and that not thoughtlessly or irregularly, but at the appointed times and hours. Where and by whom He desires these things to be done, He Himself has fixed by His own supreme will, in order that all things, being piously done according to His good pleasure, may be acceptable unto Him. Those, therefore, who present their offerings at the appointed times, are accepted and blessed; for inasmuch as they follow the laws of the Lord, they sin not. For his own peculiar services are assigned to the high priest, and their own proper place is prescribed to the priests, and their own special ministrations devolve on the Levites. The layman is bound by the laws that pertain to laymen.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Some join κατὰ καιροὺς τεταγμένους, “at stated times,” to the next sentence.
* ↑ Literally, “to His will.”
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 41

Chapter XLI.—Continuation of the Same Subject.
Let every one of you, brethren, give thanks to God in his own order, living in all good conscience, with becoming gravity, and not going beyond the rule of the ministry prescribed to him. Not in every place, brethren, are the daily sacrifices offered, or the peace-offerings, or the sin-offerings and the trespass-offerings, but in Jerusalem only. And even there they are not offered in any place, but only at the altar before the temple, that which is offered being first carefully examined by the high priest and the ministers already mentioned. Those, therefore, who do anything beyond that which is agreeable to His will, are punished with death. Ye see, brethren, that the greater the knowledge that has been vouchsafed to us, the greater also is the danger to which we are exposed.

## Footnotes

* ↑ I. εὐαρεστείτω (be well-pleasing).
* ↑ Or, “consider.”
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 34

Chapter XXXIV.—Great is the Reward of Good Works with God. Joined Together in Harmony, Let Us Implore that Reward from Him.
The good servant receives the bread of his labour with confidence; the lazy and slothful cannot look his employer in the face. It is requisite, therefore, that we be prompt in the practice of well-doing; for of Him are all things.  And thus He forewarns us: “Behold, the Lord [cometh], and His reward is before His face, to render to every man according to his work.” He exhorts us, therefore, with our whole heart to attend to this, that we be not lazy or slothful in any good work. Let our boasting and our confidence be in Him. Let us submit ourselves to His will. Let us consider the whole multitude of His angels, how they stand ever ready to minister to His will. For the Scripture saith, “Ten thousand times ten thousand stood around Him, and thousands of thousands ministered unto Him, and cried, Holy, holy, holy, [is] the Lord of Sabaoth; the whole creation is full of His glory.” And let us therefore, conscientiously gathering together in harmony, cry to Him earnestly, as with one mouth, that we may be made partakers of His great and glorious promises.  For [the Scripture] saith, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which He hath prepared for them that wait for Him.”

## Footnotes

* ↑ Or, “labourer.”
* ↑ Isa. xl. 10, lxii. 11; Rev. xxii. 12.
* ↑ I. πιστεύοντας (believing).
* ↑ The text here seems to be corrupt. Some translate, “He warns us with all His heart to this end, that,” etc.
* ↑ Dan. vii. 10.
* ↑ I. γῆ (earth).
* ↑ Isa. vi. 3.
* ↑ I. ἀγαπῶσιν (love).
* ↑ 1 Cor. ii. 9.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 38

Chapter XXXVIII.—Let the Members of the Church Submit Themselves, and No One Exalt Himself Above Another.
Let our whole body, then, be preserved in Christ Jesus; and let every one be subject to his neighbour, according to the special gift bestowed upon him. Let the strong not despise the weak, and let the weak show respect unto the strong. Let the rich man provide for the wants of the poor; and let the poor man bless God, because He hath given him one by whom his need may be supplied. Let the wise man display his wisdom, not by [mere] words, but through good deeds. Let the humble not bear testimony to himself, but leave witness to be borne to him by another. Let him that is pure in the flesh not grow proud of it, and boast, knowing that it was another who bestowed on him the gift of continence. Let us consider, then, brethren, of what matter we were made,—who and what manner of beings we came into the world, as it were out of a sepulchre, and from utter darkness. He who made us and fashioned us, having prepared His bountiful gifts for us before we were born, introduced us into His world. Since, therefore, we receive all these things from Him, we ought for everything to give Him thanks; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

## Footnotes

* ↑ I. omits “Jesus.”
* ↑ Literally, “according as he has been placed in his charism.”
* ↑ I. τημελείτω (attend to).
* ↑ Comp. Prov. xxvii. 2.
* ↑ The ms. is here slightly torn, and we are left to conjecture.
* ↑ Comp. Ps. cxxxix. 15.
# Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 42

Chapter XLII.—The Order of Ministers in the Church.
The apostles have preached the gospel to us from the Lord Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ [has done so] from God. Christ therefore was sent forth by God, and the apostles by Christ. Both these appointments, then, were made in an orderly way, according to the will of God. Having therefore received their orders, and being fully assured by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and established in the word of God, with full assurance of the Holy Ghost, they went forth proclaiming that the kingdom of God was at hand. And thus preaching through countries and cities, they appointed the first fruits [of their labours], having first proved them by the Spirit, to be bishops and deacons of those who should afterwards believe. Nor was this any new thing, since indeed many ages before it was written concerning bishops and deacons. For thus saith the Scripture in a certain place, “I will appoint their bishops in righteousness, and their deacons in faith.”

## Footnotes

* ↑ Or, “by the command of.”
* ↑ A. “the Christ,” I. “Christ.”
* ↑ I. omits.
* ↑ Literally, “both things were done.”
* ↑ Or, “confirmed by.”
* ↑ Or, “having tested them in spirit.”
* ↑ Or, “overseers.”
* ↑ Or, “servants.”
* ↑ Isa. lx. 17, Sept.; but the text is here altered by Clement. The LXX. have, “I will give thy rulers in peace, and thy overseers in righteousness.”
# Backblock Ballads and Later Verses/Son of a Fool

Son of a Fool
Gyved and chained in his father's home,
 He toiled 'neath a conqueror's rule;
Bowed to the earth in the land of his birth:
 The Slave who was Son of a Fool.
Poor remnant he of a conquered race,
 Long shorn of its power and pride,
No reverence shone in his sullen face
 When they told how that race had died.
But the meed that he gave to his father's name
Was a down-drooped head and a flush of shame.
Oh, the Fool had reigned full many a year
 In the Land of the Bounteous Gifts,
Dreaming and drifting, with never a fear,
 As a doomed fool pleasantly drifts;
And he ate his fill of the gifts she gave— The Fool who was sire of a hopeless Slave.
Year by year as his harvest grew
 He gleaned with a lightsome heart;
His barns he filled, and he sowed and tilled,
 Trading in port and mart.
Proud of his prowess in sport and trade
Was the Fool, who scoffed at an alien raid.
Little he recked of the gathering cloud
 That boded a swift disgrace.
Was he not seed of a manly breed,
 Proud son of a warlike race?
And he told of the deeds that his sires had done— While he wielded a bat in the place of a gun.
Small were his fears in the rich, fat years,
 Loud was his laugh of scorn
When they whispered low of a watching foe,
 Greedy for gold and corn;
A foe grown jealous of trade and power,
Marking the treasure, and waiting the hour.   And, e'en when the smoke of the raiders' ships
 Trailed out o'er the northern skies,
His laugh was loud: "'Tis a summer cloud,"
 Said the Fool in his Paradise.
And, to guard his honour, he gave a gun
To the feeble hands of his younger son.
Oh, a startled Fool, and a Fool in haste
 Awoke on a later day,
When they sped the word that a foe laid waste
 His ports by the smiling bay;
And his voice was shrill as he bade his sons
Haste out to the sound of the booming guns.
But scarce had he raised his rallying cry,
 Scarce had he called one note,
When he died, as ever a fool must die,
 With his war-song still in his throat.
And an open ditch was the hasty grave
Of the Fool who fathered a hopeless Slave.
They point the moral, they tell the tale,
 And the old world wags its head:
"If a Fool hath treasure, and Might prevail,
 Then the Fool must die," 'tis said.
And the end of it all is a broken gun
And the heritage gleaned by a hapless son.
Gyved and chained in his father's home,
 He toiled 'neath a conqueror's rule;
While they flung in his face the taunt of his race:  A Slave and the Son of a Fool.
# Backblock Ballads and Later Verses/Sore Throat

Sore Throat
The pale young man he comes to me,  An' chats me good an' fair; "That langwidge that you use," sez he  "Pollutes the good clean air. Why don't you chuck sich silly rot, An' line-up with our 'Clean-Lipped Lot?'"
Well, 'abit's 'abit; there you are,  An' since I was a kid, In school an' shop an' street an' bar,  I picked up words, I did. To use the fancy swears I hear Comes natural as sinkin' beer.
An', square an' all, I got no use  For them poor, shrinkin' guys Who, at the sound of choice abuse,  Turn pale, an' rolls their eyes. Who fades and wilts an' calls for nurse, To hear a blithered soldier's curse.
Beef an' blood gravy's fightin' food,
 Not milk—but, all the same,
I came to see there ain't no good
 In this crook langwidge game.
An' so, a little vow I made,
An' joined their swell "Clean-Lip Brigade."
'Twas 'ard! But sternly I pursoo'd
 Me course; an' wore a frown
Thro' swallerin' me speech unchewed,
 An' chokin' curse-words down.
Oh dear! It was a dreadful stunt!
Then, Gracious me! I hit the Front!
A feller in the firin' line,
 Tied up with sich a gag,
Who has to curse by look an' sign,
 He fair gets out the rag.
An' so, I sez, each time I shoots,
"I'll take it out of you, you ——broots!"
I don't care what them goodies say,
 It's cruel, fightin' dumb!
To curse a bit, once in a way,
 Relieves your feelin's some.
I kills four men in fair, clean fight,
An' seven extra out uv spite.
An' then there come the bay'nit charge;
 The blokes to left an' right
They all was cursin' fine an' large,
 But I keep mum, an' fight.
I plunks a Square-'ead in the wind,
"Annoying fellow! There!" I grinned.
With that, a great, big 'ulkin' chap,
 Comes at me with a sword— (The thing I needed in that scrap
 Was just one little word).
"Haw! You—you person—" I begun,
But, while I talks, he gets in one.
Fair in the neck I got that swipe,
 An' crumbles in a heap;
An' starts to think the time is ripe
 To 'ave a long, deep sleep.
"You are intensely rude," I said.
An' so, they leaves me there fer dead.
They invaleeds me 'ome, although
 The wound gives me no cares.
The cause of my complaint, I know,
 Was bottlin' up me swears
Congestion of them "Damns" denied;
It made me feel all swelled inside.
The pale young man he comes to me,
 "Ah friend," he says, "How now?
Your lips are clean, I'm pleased to see,
 An' you 'ave kep' yer vow?"
"Me lips is bonzer," I replied,
"But, 'Struth, me throat is scarified!"
# Backblock Ballads and Later Verses/The Australaise

Air: Onward, Christian Soldiers.
"The Australaise" was first published in The Bulletin on 12 November 1908 as an entry in a National Song Competition which drew 74 entries. The entry was entitled "A Real Australian Austra--laise", and won its author a special prize. It also appeared in Backblock Ballads and Other Verses (1913) and Backblock Ballads and Later Verses (1918). Footnote to 1915 edition: "Where a dash (——) replaces a missing word, the adjective "blessed" may be interpolated. In cases demanding great emphasis, the use of the word "blooming" is permissible. However, any other word may be used that suggests itself as suitable." Earlier editions also included this footnote: "(With some acknowledgements to W.T. Goodge.)".
The Austral——aise
Fellers of Australier,  Blokes an' coves an' coots,  Shift yer —— carcases,  Move yer —— boots.
 Gird yer —— loins up,  Get yer —— gun,
 Set the —— enermy  An' watch the —— run.
Chorus:  Get a —— move on,
 Have some —— sense.
 Learn the —— art of
 Self de- —— -fence.
 Have some —— brains be-  Neath yer —— lids.  An' swing a —— sabre  Fer the missus an' the kids.
Chuck supportin' —— posts,
 An' strikin' —— lights,
 Support a —— fam'ly an'
 Strike fer yer —— rights.
Chorus:
 Get a —— move, etc.
 Joy is —— fleetin',
 Life is —— short.
 Wot's the use uv wastin' it
 All on —— sport?
 Hitch yer —— tip-dray
 To a —— star.
 Let yer —— watchword be
 "Australi- —— -ar!"
Chorus:
 Get a —— move, etc.
 'Ow's the —— nation
 Goin' to ixpand
 'Lest us —— blokes an' coves
 Lend a —— 'and ?
'Eave yer —— apathy
 Down a —— chasm;
 'Ump yer —— burden with
 Enthusi- —— -asm.
Chorus:
 Get a —— move, etc.
 W'en the —— trouble
 Hits yer native land
 Take a —— rifle
 In yer —— 'and.
 Keep yer —— upper lip
 Stiff as stiff kin be,
 An' speed a —— bullet for
 Pos- —— -terity.
Chorus:
 Get a —— move, etc.
 W'en the —— bugle
 Sounds "Ad- —— -vance"
 Don't be like a flock uv sheep
 In a —— trance.
Biff the —— foeman
 Where it don't agree.
 Spifler- —— -cate him
 To Eternity.
Chorus:
 Get a —— move, etc.
 Fellers of Australier,
 Cobbers, chaps an' mates,
 Hear the —— enermy
 Kickin' at the gates!
 Blow the —— bugle,
 Beat the —— drum,
 Upper-cut and out the cow
 To kingdom- —— -come!
Chorus:
 Get a —— move on,
 Have some —— sense.
 Learn the —— art of
 Self de- —— -fence!