Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 6

Chapter VI.&#8212;Continuation.&#160; Several Other Martyrs.

To these men who spent their lives in the practice of holiness, there is to be added a great multitude of the elect, who, having through envy endured many indignities and tortures, furnished us with a most excellent example.&#160; Through envy, those women, the Danaids and Dirc&#230;, being persecuted, after they had suffered terrible and unspeakable torments, finished the course of their faith with stedfastness, and though weak in body, received a noble reward.&#160; Envy has alienated wives from their husbands, and changed that saying of our father Adam, &#8220;This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh.&#8221; &#160; Envy and strife have overthrown great cities, and rooted up mighty nations.