Clement of Alexandria was a product of the same rhetoric schools and an excellent teacher of his subject before he recognized the divine origin of Christianity.

Clement was for months a prisoner in the Castle of Sant' Angelo, unable to stir abroad.

"Bernhard related only things that happened to another, but Clement has himself been the hero of a true story, which I consider far more important.

the clement, the compassionate, We are thy servants, succor our distress, And save us from the sorcery that now Yields triumph to the foe.

James Clement was a young Dominican who, according to report, had been a soldier before he became a monk.

Baur contents himself with the remark that the Epistle to the Corinthians, 'as one of the oldest documents of Christian antiquity, might have passed without question as a writing of the Roman Clement,' had not this Clement become a legendary person and had so many spurious works palmed off upon him [Endnote 59:2].

Clement is sincerely his friend, and has forgiven the part he played during the siege of Florence.

To me, at that time, the authority of Jesus was supreme and unassailable; his apostles were his infallible messengers; Clement of Rome, Polycarp, and Barnabas, these were the very pupils of the apostles themselves.