Christian Understanding of Trinity3
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TRINITY : M. M. NINAN<br />
9. Trinity through History<br />
that He, when He has raised mankind, will also judge them.<br />
“(Epistle <strong>of</strong> Barnabas).<br />
Clement bishop <strong>of</strong> Rome (c. A.D. 96):<br />
Clement I, the bishop <strong>of</strong> Rome<br />
is considered to be the fourth<br />
pope by the Roman Catholic<br />
Church, after Anacletus, Linus<br />
and Peter. He is one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
earliest Apostolic Fathers. The<br />
Epistle <strong>of</strong> Clement was<br />
probably written between AD<br />
92 to 99. This probably was<br />
the fellow worker <strong>of</strong> St. Paul<br />
mentioned in Phil. 4:3. In<br />
Clement’s Letter to the<br />
Corinthians, he clearly distinguishes the Father from the Lord<br />
Jesus Christ:<br />
“The Church <strong>of</strong> God which sojourns at Rome, to the Church <strong>of</strong><br />
God sojourning at Corinth, to those who are called and<br />
sanctified by the will <strong>of</strong> God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:<br />
Grace to you, and peace, from Almighty God through Jesus<br />
Christ, be multiplied….. as being stones <strong>of</strong> the temple <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Father, prepared for the building <strong>of</strong> God the Father, and drawn<br />
up on high by the instrument <strong>of</strong> Jesus Christ, which is the<br />
cross, making use <strong>of</strong> the Holy Spirit as a rope, while your faith<br />
was the means by which you ascended, and your love the way<br />
which led up to God … Have we not [all] one God and one<br />
Christ? Is there not one Spirit <strong>of</strong> grace poured out upon us?.<br />
(Letter to the Corinthians).<br />
Ignatius bishop <strong>of</strong> Antioch (c. A.D. 107):<br />
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