Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 9

Chapter IX.&#8212;Examples of the Saints.

Wherefore, let us yield obedience to His excellent and glorious will; and imploring His mercy and loving-kindness, while we forsake all fruitless labours and strife, and envy, which leads to death, let us turn and have recourse to His compassions.&#160; Let us stedfastly contemplate those who have perfectly ministered to his excellent glory.&#160; Let us take (for instance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience, was translated, and death was never known to happen to him. &#160; Noah, being found faithful, preached regeneration to the world through his ministry; and the Lord saved by him the animals which, with one accord, entered into the ark.