1 Clement 17

1Let us become imitators also of those who went about in goatskins and sheepskins, proclaiming the coming of the Christ. We mean Elijah and Elisha, and also Ezekiel, the prophets; and besides these, those who have been commended.

2Abraham received great testimony and was called the friend of God, and gazing intently on the glory of God, he said with humility, “But I am dust and ashes.”

3And concerning Job it is thus written: “Now Job was righteous and blameless, true, God-fearing, abstaining from every evil.”

4But he himself accuses himself, saying, “No one is clean from defilement, not even if his life is one day.”

5Moses was called faithful in all his house, and through his service God judged Egypt through their plagues and torments; yet even he, though greatly glorified, did not become arrogant, but said, when a divine message was given to him at the bush, “Who am I, that you send me? For I am weak-voiced and slow of tongue.”

6And again he says, “But I am steam from a pot.”