This revision is based on the 1901 American Standard Version, and attempts to provide an accessible and literal English translation.

    Logic, clarity, and simplicity permeate this eminently readable book.

    For forty years Catholic Christians have been turning and returning to this spiritual classic in which a Trappist monk speaks clearly and perceptively to the priest, religious, or layperson still "in the world."

    

    Clement's epistle, written c. 96, is called the first epistle, and is a model of a pastoral letter. The epistles of St. Ignatius, Bishop of Smyrna at the beginning of the second century, are addressed to six Christian communities.

    Allison Peers's justly celebrated translation.