The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
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To these men with their holy lives was gathered
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a great multitude of the chosen, who were the: victims of jealousy and offered among us the fairest example in their endurance under many indignities and tortures.
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Through jealousy women were persecuted as Danaids and Dircae,
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suffering terrible and unholy indignities; they stedfastly finished the course of faith, and received a noble reward, weak in the body though they were.
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Jealousy has estranged wives from husbands, and made of no effect the saying of our father Adam, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.
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Jealousy and strife have overthrown great cities, and rooted up mighty nations.