{"id":113,"date":"2010-09-23T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T09:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/2010\/09\/23\/meet-the-fathers-pope-st-clement-i\/"},"modified":"2010-09-23T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T09:58:35","slug":"meet-the-fathers-pope-st-clement-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/2010\/09\/23\/meet-the-fathers-pope-st-clement-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Fathers: Pope St. Clement I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"line-height: 21px; \"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfbfe53ef0134879e322b970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clement1-2\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfbfe53ef0134879e322b970c \" src=\"http:\/\/jimmyakin.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfbfe53ef0134879e322b970c-320pi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Clement1-2\" \/><\/a> &#0160;<\/span>Probably wrote<br \/>\nin early 70. Various ancient sources place him as the first, second, or third<br \/>\nsuccessor of St. Peter. (Most commonly, he is held to be the third, after Linus<br \/>\nand Cletus.) He was the author of a single surviving <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:\nnormal\">Letter to the Corinthians<\/em>, which is often dated around 95, but this<br \/>\nis too late a date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-prop-change:\n&quot;Fact Checker&quot; 20100527T1612\">William Jurgens points to internal evidence that<br \/>\nplaces it no later than 80 or so (the date he favors) and possibly up to ten<br \/>\nyears earlier. John A. T. Robinson shows internal evidence that places it in<br \/>\nthe first part of the year 70. Specifically, Clement refers to sacrifices still<br \/>\nbeing offered at the temple in Jerusalem, which was destroyed in July of 70.<br \/>\nClement also refers to the repeated crises that have prevented him from writing<br \/>\nto the Corinthians until now, which is a likely reference to the violent <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;Probably wrote in early 70. Various ancient sources place him as the first, second, or third successor of St. Peter. (Most commonly, he is held to be the third, after Linus and Cletus.) He was the author of a single surviving Letter to the Corinthians, which is often dated around 95, but this is too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meet-the-fathers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyakin.com\/fathersknowbest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}