{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080026.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080026.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080026.htm","text":"p. 55 Two Epistles Concerning Virginity.\nThe First Epistle of the Blessed Clement, the Disciple of Peter the Apostle.\nTo all those who love and cherish their life which is in Christ through God the Father, and obey the truth of God in hope of eternal life; to those who bear affection towards their brethren and towards their neighbours in the love of God; to the blessed brother virgins, 292 who devote themselves to preserve virginity \u201cfor the sake of the kingdom of heaven;\u201d 293 and to the holy sister virgins: the peace which is in God. 294\nIn later Greek \u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b8\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 was used of both sexes (comp. Rev. xiv. 4). The Syriac original employs both a masculine and a feminine form. This will not always be indicated in the following translation.\n55:293 55:294\nOr \u201cto the holy virgins who are in God: peace.\u201d So Zingerle, and probably Wetstein.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Two Epistles Concerning Virginity.: Chapter I","type":"page"}