1 If any man will consider them one by one in sincerity, he shall understand the magnificence of the gifts that are given by Him. (1CL) 2 For of Jacob are all the priests and levites who minister unto the altar of God; of him is the Lord Jesus as concerning the flesh; of him are kings and rulers and governors in the line of Judah; yea and the rest of his tribes are held in no small honor, seeing that God promised saying, Thy seed shall be as the stars of heaven . (1CL) 3 They all therefore were glorified and magnified, not through themselves or their own works or the righteous doing which they wrought, but through His will. (1CL) 4 And so we, having been called through His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified through ourselves or through our own wisdom or understanding or piety or works which we wrought in holiness of heart, but through faith, whereby the Almighty God justified all men that have been from the beginning; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. (1CL)
1 Clement 32:1–4
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