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The Clementine RecognitionsComplete Edition
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The Clementine Recognitions

Complete Edition

The Clementine Recognitions is a novel-length early Christian text narrating how Clement of Rome — the third or fourth bishop of Rome after Peter — joined Peter’s mission, followed him in his debates with Simon Magus, and eventually discovered that his long-lost family had all converted independently and were scattered across the Mediterranean. The “recognitions” of the title are the family reunio

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Context without the mythology.

Codex ISO separates the surviving evidence from later interpretation, so you can encounter the text without being told what to believe about it first.

01 / Historical context

3rd–4th century. The largest and most complex of the early Christian apocrypha. Presents Peter and Simon Magus in sustained theological debate. Contains proto-orthodox theology and

02 / Why it matters

The first Pope’s secretary recorded everything. The Church kept some of it. Not all.

From / associated with the text
“The True Prophet has warned us that our God is one, and that He alone is to be worshipped, and that we should not set up many gods, in accordance with the mischievous and deceiving doctrine of the Greeks.”
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