for if God should pay the recompense of the righteous speedily, we should immediately be training ourselves in commerce and not in godliness; for we should seem to be righteous when we were pursuing not piety but gain. For this reason divine judgment punishes This translation takes the aorist as gnomic, and regards spirit as meaning a human spirit. But Harnack prefers to take the aorist as historical and refers the passage to the fall of Satan. a spirit which is not righteous and loads it with chains. To the only invisible God, the father of truth. Doxology who sent forth to us the Saviour and prince of immortality, through whom he also made manifest to to us truth and the life of heaven, to him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians.