third Paul for their head'. In order to recommend unity and univerfal love to the Corinthians, he ufes a fimilitude. "Confider," fays he', our bodies. The head is nothing without the feet, fo neither the feet without the head. Even the moft inconfiderable members are very neceffary and ufeful to the whole body. They all harmonife with, and are fubject to, one another, for the prefervation of the whole." St. Paul ufes the very fame fimilitude for the very fame purpose.-In the forty-fix th chap. (p. 69) he exhorts them to unity t r Ch. xlvii. p. 70.-"Look into the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle. What has he there written to you in the very beginning, in the beginning of Christianity?" (Thus I render the words, tv agxy Evayysλıou, which phrase is commonly used in this sense by the ecclefiaftical writers. This muft not therefore be understood of a Gospel written by St. Paul; which is also evident from the context.)-"Through the instigation of the Spirit, he'admonishes you concerning himself and Peter and Apollos, because that even then you did form parties." Ch. xxxvii. p. 57 I Corinth. xii. 12-26. and and love," because they would other wife lacerate the members of Chrift, and tear them from one another; and would rage againft their own bodies, and moft fenfelefsly forget, that we are members one of another." St. Paul alfo, 1 Cor. xii. 27. has employed the fame argument. He makes a reprefentation of charity, which is taken almost entirely from 1 Cor. xiii. "Charity covers a multitude of fins. It undertakes all work, it bears all with patience. In charity there is no meannefs, no pride.-Charity does af things with unity. Through charity the chofen of God are made perfect."-Thus much then is unquestionable from the evidence of Clement, that the First Epistle to the Corinthians, was actually written by the Apoftle Paul, in the firft century. In the thirty-fixth chapter", Clement makes the very fame comparison ■ Ch. xlix. p. 73. w Page 55, 56. between between Chrift and the angels; and ufes the very fame arguments to prove his divinity, as are found in the Epiftle to the Hebrews, chap. i. 3—13. The whole paffage deferves to be fubmitted to the reader, that he may himself judge of its concordance with the above-mentioned part of the Epiftle to the Hebrews.-Clement had before faid of Jefus, That he alone was the High Prieft, through whom God would lead us to the enjoyment of immortal wifdom; "who," he continues, "is the brightrefs of his Majefty, (awavyaoμx της μεγαλωσύνης αυτου) and by fo much greater than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For fo it is written: (Pfalm civ. 4.) Who maketh his angels fpirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. But of his Son, thus faid the Lord: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Afk of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the whole earth (Ta Wεрaτα τns yns) for thy poffeffion. And again he faith unto him, Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool."However accurately this paffage may harmonife with the firft chapter of the Epiftle to the Hebrews, yet I do not pretend to draw a conclufion from it for the authenticity of that Epiftle. Clement might have derived all thefe expreffions concerning Chrift, and these proofs from the oral information of an Apoftle. If the authenticity of the Epiftle to the Hebrews be not yet determined, (which in this place muft neceffarily be the cafe), then it is equally poffible that the author of this epiftle copied from Clement, as that the latter copied from the former. For the fame reafons I muft judge in a fimilar manner of the paffages which nearly refemble thofe in our prefent Gofpels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, E3 Mark, and St. Luke,-In the thirteenth chapter he exhorts the Corinthians to forbearance and brotherly kindness in thefe words: "Let us efpecially remember the commands of the Lord Jefus, for thus he faid, Be merciful, so shall ye find mercy. Forgive, fo fhall it be forgiven unto you. As you do, fo fhall it be done unto you. As you give, fo fhall it be given unto you. As you judge, fo fhall you be judged ; as you fhew kindness, so shall kindness be fhewn unto you. With what meafure you mete, with the fame it shall be measured unto you." Similar commands of Jefus actually exift in Matt. vii. 1. and Luke vi. 36-38. But Cle ment does not once affirm in this paffage, that he derived them from any written information. He, and also the Corinthians to whom he wrote, might have received them orally from the Apostles. -In the fame manner he reminds them" * Page 20. Chap. 46. p. 79. of |