Clement
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women
which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and
[with] other my fellowlabourers, whose names [are] in the book
of life....
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(mild, merciful), Phm 4:3 a fellow laborer of St. Paul when he
was at Philippi. (A.D. 57.) It was generally believed in the
ancient Church that this Clement was identical with the bishop
of Rome who afterwards became so celebrated....
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mild, a Christian of Philippi, Paul's "fellow-labourer,"
whose
name he mentions as "in the book of life" (Phil. 4:3).
It was an
opinion of ancient writers that he was the Clement of
Rome whose
name is well known in church history, and that he was
the author
of an Epistle to the Corinthians, the only known
manuscript of
which is appended t...
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Paul's fellow helper at Philippi, whom Origen (Commentary,
John 1:29) identifies with the Clement, the apostolical father
afterward bishop of Rome, whose epistle to the Corinthian
church (part of the Alexandrius manuscript of Greek Old and
New Testament) is extant. Philippi being closely connected
with Rome, as a Roman colony, might easily hav...
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klem'-ent (Klemes, "mild"): A fellow-worker with Paul at
Philippi, mentioned with especial commendation in Phil 4:3.
The name being common, no inference can be drawn from this
statement as to any identity with the author of the Epistle to
the Corinthians published under this name, who was also the
third bishop of Rome. The truth of this suppos...
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