The Recognitions of Clement from the Ancient Writings of The Set-Apart Bible. Read free with the Sacred Names (Yahweh, Yahshua, Elohim) and audio narration.
1 Book I. Clement's Early History; Doubts.
2 I Clement, who was born in the city of Rome, was from my earliest age a lover of chastity; while the bent of my mind held me bound as with chains of anxiety and sorrow.
3 For a thought that was in me-whence originating, I cannot tell-constantly led me to think of my condition of mortality, and to discuss such questions as these: Whether there be for me any life after death, or whether I am to be wholly annihilated: whether I did not exist before I was born, and whether there shall be no remembrance of this life after death, and so the boundlessness of time shall consign all things to oblivion and silence; so that not only we shall cease to be, but there shall be no remembrance that we have ever been.
4 This also I revolved in my mind: when the world was made, or what was before it was made, or whether it has existed from eternity.
5 For it seemed certain, that if it had been made, it must be doomed to dissolution; and if it be dissolved, what is to be afterwards?-unless, perhaps, all things shall be buried in oblivion and silence, or something shall be, which the mind of man cannot now conceive.