Clement
CLEMENT
Mentioned in Phi 4:3 . It is conjectured, though without evidence, that this is the same Clement who was afterwards a bishop at Rome, commonly called Clemens Romanus. The church at Corinth having been disturbed by divisions, Clement wrote a letter to the Corinthians, which was so much esteemed by the ancients, that they read it publicly in many churches.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Clement
Mention is made of Clement in Php 4:3 as one of St. Pauls fellow-workers. If is connected with , Clement was urged to help in the work of reconciling Euodia and Syntyche. But it is better to connect the phrase with , so including Clement among those with whom these women and St. Paul laboured in the gospel; i.e. he had been conspicuous in Christian work in Philippi. But the reference does not suggest that he was in Philippi when St. Paul wrote; it is too oblique for that. Would he not have been asked to use his good offices to effect a reconciliation? Two things are possible: (a) he may be dead, though his memory is fragrant (the reference to other fellow-workers whose names are in the book of life is not inconsistent with this suggestion); (b) he may be with St. Paul, one of the band who gathered about him in his imprisonment and through whom the Apostle carried on his work. In that case Clement was in Rome, and one of the arguments against identifying him with Clement, bishop of Rome, who wrote the Letter to the Church of Corinth, would disappear. The difficulty of date is, however, serious, though not insuperable. If Clement were a promising convert from Philippi, who after serving there with marked success became a pupil and companion of St. Paul, he could not very well have been less than 35 or 40 years of age when Phil was written from Rome about a.d. 60. If this Clement is to be identified with Clemens Romanus, he must have lived to extreme old age. The identification, first made by Origen, cannot be proved; it is even precarious; but Kennedy goes too far when he calls it absurd (Expositors Greek Testament , Philippians, ad loc.).
The name is a common one.
Literature.-J. B. Lightfoot, Philippians4, 1878 (esp. note on p. 168ff.); H. A. A. Kennedy, Expositors Greek Testament , Philippians, 1903; article on Clement in Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) ; E. B. Redlich, St. Paul and his Companions, 1913, p. 223.
J. E. Roberts.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Clement
( for Lat. clemens, merciful), a person (apparently a Christian of Philippi) mentioned by Paul (Php 4:3) as one whose name was in the book of life (q.v.), A.D. 57. This Clement was, by the ancient Church, identified with the bishop of Rome of the same name (Eusebius Hist. Ecc 3:4; Constitut. Apost. 7, 46, Origen, vol. 1, p. 262, ed. Lommatzsch; and Jerome, Scriptor. Eccl. p. 176, a); and that opinion has naturally been followed by Roman Catholic expositors. It cannot now be proved incorrect; and, in fact, it is not improbable in itself. There are essays on his life, identity, and character as a teacher, by Feuerlein (Altorf, 1728), Freudenberger (Lips. 1755), Frommann (Cobl. 1768), Roudinini (Romans 1606). SEE CLEMENT OF ROME.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Clement (2)
a Scotch prelate, was a Dominican friar, and was consecrated to the see of Dunblane in 1233 He probably died in 1258. See Keith Scottish Bishops p. 172
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Clement
mild, a Christian of Philippi, Paul’s “fellow-labourer,” whose name he mentions as “in the book of life” (Phil. 4:3). It was an opinion of ancient writers that he was the Clement of Rome whose name is well known in church history, and that he was the author of an Epistle to the Corinthians, the only known manuscript of which is appended to the Alexandrian Codex, now in the British Museum. It is of some historical interest, and has given rise to much discussion among critics. It makes distinct reference to Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Clement
Paul’s fellow helper at Philippi, whom Origen (Commentary, Joh 1:29) identifies with the Clement, the apostolical father afterward bishop of Rome, whose epistle to the Corinthian church (part of the Alexandrius manuscript of Greek Old and New Testament) is extant. Philippi being closely connected with Rome, as a Roman colony, might easily have furnished a, bishop to the Roman church.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Clement
CLEMENT.The name of a fellow-worker with St. Paul (Php 4:3). There are no sufficient grounds for identifying him with Clement, bishop of Rome, the writer of the Epistle to the Church of Corinth.
J. G. Tasker.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Clement
klement (, Klemes, mild): A fellow-worker with Paul at Philippi, mentioned with especial commendation in Phi 4:3. The name being common, no inference can be drawn from this statement as to any identity with the author of the Epistle to the Corinthians published under this name, who was also the third bishop of Rome. The truth of this supposition (it cannot be called a tradition, Donaldson, The Apostolical Fathers, 120), although found in Origen, Eusebius, Epiphanius and Jerome, can neither be proved nor disproved. Even Roman Catholic authorities dispute it (article Clement, Catholic Cyclopaedia, IV, 13). The remoteness between the two in time and place is against it; a wholly uncritical view (Cruttwell, Literary History of Early Christianity, 31).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Clement
Clement, a person mentioned by Paul (Php 4:3), as one whose name was in the book of life. For the meaning of this phrase, see Book of Life. This Clement was, by the ancient church, identified with the bishop of Rome of the same name; and that opinion has naturally been followed by Roman Catholic expositors. It cannot now be proved incorrect; but the suspicion exists that the case here may be as with many other names in the New Testament, which have been assigned to celebrated persons of a later period. Clement is said to have lived to the third year of the emperor Trajan (A.D. 100), when he suffered martyrdom.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Clement
Fellow labourer with Paul at Philippi. Php 4:3. He is accounted to be one of the Apostolic Fathers, a name given to those who lived in the times of the apostles and who have left writings bearing their names.
CLEMENT, EPISTLES OF. There are two epistles ascribed to Clement, and which in the Codex Alexandrinus follow the Revelation. The first is considered genuine, but the second is very doubtful. Eusebius says of the first that it was read in the churches in early times and also in his own day. He calls it ‘an Epistle in the name of the church of Rome (over which church Clement is recorded as bishop) to the church at Corinth.’ Apparently there was dissension in the church at Corinth: he thus addresses them: “It is disgraceful, beloved, yea, highly disgraceful and unworthy of your Christian profession, that such a thing should be heard of as that the most steadfast and ancient church of the Corinthians should, on account of one or two persons, engage in sedition against its presbyters.” A great deal is said about repentance, love, and good works; but sacrifices to be offered at Jerusalem are strangely interwoven with the exhortations, though he was writing to Gentiles.
His fanciful use of the O.T. scriptures is remarkable. Thus in speaking of the appointment of bishops and deacons he says, “Nor was this any new thing, since indeed many ages before it was written concerning bishops and deacons. For thus saith the scripture, in a certain place, ‘I will appoint their bishops in righteousness, and their deacons in faith.'” Chap. xlii. This is doubtless intended as a quotation from Isa 60:17 in the LXX, but altered to suit his purpose; for the LXX reads “I will make thy princes peaceable, and thine overseers righteous.” As an emblem of the resurrection Clement relates the heathen fable of the phoenix living five hundred years, and then rising again as a fresh bird from its own ashes. He then adds that God “even by a bird shows us the mightiness of His power to fulfil His promise.” Chaps. xxv., xxvi. Though there are many pious remarks scattered through the epistle, there is on the whole a great difference between it and holy scripture; a deep dark line separates it widely from everything that bears the stamp of divine inspiration.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Clement
A disciple at Philippi.
Phi 4:3
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Clement
Clem’ent. (mild, merciful). Phm 4:3. A fellow laborer of St. Paul, when he was at Philippi, (A.D. 57). It was generally believed, in the ancient Church, that this Clement was identical with the bishop of Rome who, afterwards, became so celebrated.