The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

For David the chosen says:—I will confess to the Lord, and it shall please him more than a young calf that groweth horns and hoofs: let the poor see it and be glad.

And again he says Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise, and pay to the Highest thy vows; and call upon me in the day of thy affliction, and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me.

For the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.

For you have understanding, you have a good[*](The example of Moses) understanding of the sacred Scriptures, beloved, and you have studied the oracles of God. Therefore we write these things to remind you.

For when Moses went up into the mountain, and passed forty days and forty nights in fasting and humiliation, God said to him:—Go down hence quickly, for thy people, whom thou didst bring out of the land of Egypt, have committed iniquity; they have quickly gone aside out of the way which thou didst command them; they have made themselves molten images.

And the Lord said to him:—I have spoken to thee once and twice, saying, I have seen this people, and behold it is stiffnecked; suffer