Read it closely:
Somewhere around here there is a discussion of this epistle and the alleged persecution of Domitian...which did not happen. When I get the time I'll go looking for it.
The very fact that it makes an assertion of a persecution by Domitian suggests that this is simply a much later forgery when this whole "oh-poor-persecuted-us" shit had gotten started.
BTW, there is also no evidence for any group of xtians in first century Rome. There are jewish catacombs from the first century...but not xtian.
Quote:The traditional date for Clement's epistle, which has been elicited by the Epistle to the Hebrews's call for leadership from the church in Rome and is permeated with the earlier letter's influence,[3] is at the end of the reign of Domitian, or c. 96 AD
Somewhere around here there is a discussion of this epistle and the alleged persecution of Domitian...which did not happen. When I get the time I'll go looking for it.
The very fact that it makes an assertion of a persecution by Domitian suggests that this is simply a much later forgery when this whole "oh-poor-persecuted-us" shit had gotten started.
BTW, there is also no evidence for any group of xtians in first century Rome. There are jewish catacombs from the first century...but not xtian.
