2 Clement 5

1Therefore, brethren, let us forsake our sojourn in this world and do the will of Him who called us, and let us not be afraid to depart from this world. For the Lord says, “You shall be as lambs in the midst of wolves.” But Peter answered and said to Him, “What then, if the wolves should tear the lambs?” Jesus said to Peter, “Let not the lambs fear the wolves after they are dead; and you also, do not fear those who kill you and are not able to do anything to you; but fear Him who, after you are dead, has power over soul and body to cast them into the Gehenna of fire.” And you know, brethren, that the sojourn of this flesh in this world is mean and for a short time, but the promise of Christ is great and marvelous, even the rest of the kingdom that shall be and of life eternal. What then can we do to obtain them, but walk in holiness and righteousness, consider these worldly things as alien to us, and not desire them? For when we desire to obtain these things, we fall away from the righteous path.