Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 54

Chapter LIV.&#8212;He Who is Full of Love Will Incur Every Loss, that Peace May Be Restored to the Church.

Who then among you is noble-minded? who compassionate? who full of love?&#160; Let him declare, &#8220;If on my account sedition and disagreement and schisms have arisen, I will depart, I will go away whithersoever ye desire, and I will do whatever the majority commands; only let the flock of Christ live on terms of peace with the presbyters set over it.&#8221;&#160; He that acts thus shall procure to himself great glory in the Lord; and every place will welcome him.&#160; For &#8220;the earth is the Lord&#8217;s, and the fulness thereof.&#8221; &#160; These things they who live a godly life that is never to be repented of, both have done and always will do.