I've been reading further in 2 Clement (see previous post) and I've noticed further usage of the “double” metaphor used earlier.

For instance, I earlier cited 2Cl 10.5's use of “double penalty”, regarding those who teach improperly and those who follow the improper teachers.

I've run across a few more. Note the citation link looks up Lightfoot's English, which is a little KJV-ish. Ehrman's recent edition reads much better.

• 2Cl 15.1: Those who heed the homilist (the one giving the sermon) save themselves and the homilist.
• 2Cl 19.1: Again, “... so that you may save yourselves and the one who is your reader.”

Please note I'm not examining 2 Clement (or the other documents in the Apostolic Fathers corpus) as if they are Scripture. My interest is in seeing how they applied the NT Scriptures they had -- scattered collections of documents, no formal “canon” as of the writing of 2 Clement.

I find this whole “save/punish themselves and their hearers/readers” motif interesting by itself, but moreso as it is also used in 1Ti 4.16. I'll be keeping my eyes open in the rest of the Apostolic Fathers corpus for this now.

Does anyone have any other citations of this sort of language — Biblical or otherwise — from, say, NT times through 250 AD or so?