1Clem 16:1
   For Christ is with them that are lowly of mind, not with them that
exalt themselves over the flock.

1Clem 16:2
The scepter of the majesty of God, even our Lord Jesus Christ, came
not in the pomp of arrogance or of pride, though He might have done
so, but in lowliness of mind, according as the Holy Spirit spake
concerning Him.

1Clem 16:3
For He saith Lord, who believed our report? and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed? We announced Him in His presence. As a child was He, as a root in a thirsty ground. There is no form in Him, neither glory. And we beheld Him, and He had no form nor comeliness, but His form was mean, lacking more than the form of men. He was a man of stripes and of toil, and knowing how to bear infirmity: for His face is turned away. He was dishonored and held of no account.

1Clem 16:4
He beareth our sins and suffereth pain for our sakes: and we accounted Him to be in toil and in stripes and in affliction.

1Clem 16:5
And He was wounded for our sins and hath been afflicted for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace is upon Him. With His bruises we were healed.

1Clem 16:6
We all went astray like sheep, each man went astray in his own path:

1Clem 16:7
and the Lord delivered Him over for our sins. And He openeth not His mouth, because He is afflicted. As a sheep He was led to slaughter; and as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, so openeth He not His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was taken away.

1Clem 16:8
His generation who shall declare? For His life is taken away from the earth.

1Clem 16:9
For the iniquities of my people He is come to death.

1Clem 16:10
And I will give the wicked for His burial, and the rich for His death; for He wrought no iniquity, neither was guile found in His mouth. And the Lord desireth to cleanse Him from His stripes.

1Clem 16:11
If ye offer for sin, your soul shall see along lived seed.

1Clem 16:12
And the Lord desireth to take away from the toil of His soul, to show Him light and to mould Him with understanding, to justify a Just One that is a good servant unto many. And He shall bear their sins.

1Clem 16:13
Therefore He shall inherit many, and shall divide the spoils of the strong; because His soul was delivered unto death, and He was reckoned unto the transgressors;

1Clem 16:14
and He bare the sins of many, and for their sins was He delivered up.

1Clem 16:15
And again He Himself saith; But I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men and an outcast of the people.

1Clem 16:16
All they that beheld me mocked at me; they spake with their lips; they wagged their heads, saying, He hoped on the Lord; let Him deliver him, or let Him save him, for He desireth him.

1Clem 16:17
Ye see, dearly beloved, what is the pattern that hath been given unto
us; for, if the Lord was thus lowly of mind, what should we do, who
through Him have been brought under the yoke of His grace?

1Clem 17:1
   Let us be imitators also of them which went about in goatskins and
sheepskins, preaching the coming of Christ. We mean Elijah and Elisha
and likewise Ezekiel, the prophets, and besides them those men also
that obtained a good report.

1Clem 17:2
Abraham obtained an exceeding good report and was called the friend
of God; and looking steadfastly on the glory of God, he saith in
lowliness of mind, But I am dust and ashes.

1Clem 17:3
Moreover concerning Job also it is thus written; And Job was righteous and unblamable, one that was true and honored God and abstained from all evil.

1Clem 17:4
Yet he himself accuseth himself saying, No man from filth; no, not though his life be but for a day.

1Clem 17:5
Moses was called faithful in all His house, and through his
ministration God judged Egypt with the plagues and the torments which
befell them. Howbeit he also, though greatly glorified, yet spake no
proud words, but said, when an oracle was given to him at the bush,
Who am I, that Thou sendest me?

1Clem 17:6
Nay, I am feeble of speech and slow of tongue. And again he saith,
But I am smoke from the pot.

1Clem 18:1
   But what must we say of David that obtained a good report? of whom
God said, I have found a man after My heart, David the son of Jesse: with eternal mercy have I anointed him.

1Clem 18:2
Yet he too saith unto God Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy great mercy; and according to the multitude of Thy compassions, blot out mine iniquity.

If you have gotten this far, and understand this, read Luke 18:9-14. This is a "prophetic Parable" as the context of Luke 17 indicates, and is written for all today in the churches. This passage from 1st Clement should complete our understanding of this Parable.

 

God Bless

 

David H