The Second Letter of Clement to the Corinthians is not a letter, does not claim to be by anyone named Clement, and probably has nothing to do with Corinth. What it is is a homily - almost certainly the earliest preserved Christian homily - which, precisely in its seeming mundaneness and ordinariness, bears witness to a conviction that the Gospel was meant to bring about a new and radical transformation at the very heart of ordinary, everyday lives.
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