2 For ye will give us great joy and gladness, if ye render obedience unto the things written by us through the Holy Spirit, and root out the unrighteous anger of your jealousy, according to the entreaty which we have made for peace and concord in this letter. (1CL) 3 And we have also sent faithful and prudent men that have walked among us from youth unto old age unblamably, who shall also be witnesses between you and us. (1CL) 4 And this we have done that ye might know that we have had, and still have, every solicitude that ye should be speedily at peace. (1CL)
1 Clement 63:2–4
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