4 The great without the small cannot exist, neither the small without the great. There is a certain mixture in all things, and therein is utility. (1CL) 5 Let us take our body as an example. The head without the feet is nothing; so likewise the feet without the head are nothing: even the smallest limbs of our body are necessary and useful for the whole body: but all the members conspire and unite in subjection, that the whole body maybe saved. (1CL)
1 Clement 37:4–5
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