The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

Clemens Romanus (Clement of Rome)

Clement of Rome. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.

So the hospitable Rahab took them in, and hid them in the upper room under the stalks of flax.

And when the

king’s men came and said, The spies of our land came in to thee, bring them out, for the king orders thus, she answered The men whom ye seek did indeed come to me, but they went away forthwith, and are proceeding on their journey, and pointed in the wrong direction.