Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IX/The Epistles of Clement/The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians/Chapter 52

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Chapter LII.—Such a Confession is Pleasing to God.

The Lord, brethren, stands in need of nothing; and He desires nothing of any one except that confession be made to Him.  For, says the elect David, “I will confess unto the Lord; and that will please Him more than a young bullock^[1] that hath horns and hoofs.  Let the poor see it, and be glad.”^[2]  And again he saith, “Offer^[3] unto God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows unto the Most High.  And call upon me in the day of thy trouble:  I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”^[4]  For “the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.”^[5]

Footnotes

1. I. omits from Ps. lxix. 31, 32 the word following “bullock.”
2. Ps. lxix. 31, 32.
3. Or, “sacrifice.”
4. Ps. l. 14, l5.  I. omits Ps. l. 15.
5. Ps. li. 17.