1 All glory and enlargement was given unto you, and that was fulfilled which is written My beloved ate and drank and was enlarged and waxed fat and kicked. (1CL) 2 Hence come jealousy and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and tumult, war and captivity. (1CL) 3 So men were stirred up, the mean against the honorable , the ill reputed against the highly reputed, the foolish against the wise, the young against the elder . (1CL)
1 Clement 3:1–3
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