Various, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, The Epistles of Clement… (1885)
“ When the Most High divided the nations, when He scattered [2] the sons of Adam, He fixed the bounds of the nations according to the number of the angels of God. His people Jacob became the portion of the Lord, and Israel the lot of His inheritance. [3] And in another place [the Scripture] saith, “Behold, the Lord taketh unto Himself a nation out of the midst of the nations, as a man takes the first-fruits of his threshing-floor ”
