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First Epistle to the Corinthians

St Clement of Rome, Lake, Loeb 1912

Chapter 52

Let the wrongdoers confess their sins

The Master, brethren, is in need of nothing: he asks nothing of anyone, save that confession be made to him.

For David the chosen says:—“I will confess to the Lord, and it shall please him more than a young calf that groweth horns and hoofs: let the poor see it and be glad.”

And again he says “Sacrifice to God a sacrifice of praise, and pay to the Highest thy vows; and call upon me in the day of thy affliction, and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me.”

“For the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.”