Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 31

Chapter XXXI.&#8212;Let Us See by What Means We May Obtain the Divine Blessing.

Let us cleave then to His blessing, and consider what are the means of possessing it.&#160; Let us think over the things which have taken place from the beginning.&#160; For what reason was our father Abraham blessed?&#160; Was it not because he wrought righteousness and truth through faith?&#160; Isaac, with perfect confidence, as if knowing what was to happen, cheerfully yielded himself as a sacrifice. &#160; Jacob, through reason of his brother, went forth with humility from his own land, and came to Laban and served him; and there was given to him the sceptre of the twelve tribes of Israel.