“Written in the lifetime of the Apostle John, the first Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians gives a view of the churches at the close of the Apostolic period.[4] Clement was an elder in the church at Rome. He had seen the Apostles Peter and Paul, to whose martyrdom he refers in this letter. It begins: “The church of God which sojourns at Rome to the church of God sojourning at Corinth”. The persecutions they passed through are spoken of with a calm sense of victory: “women…” he writes, “being persecuted, after they had suffered unspeakable torments finished the course of their faith with steadfastness, and though weak in body received a noble reward.” The tone is one of humility; the writer says: “we write unto you not merely to admonish you of your duty, but also to remind ourselves.”