by F.N. Lee Comments Harvard's sympathetic G.H. Williams:143
"The Hutterite coenibites...were a household of faith. Theirs
was a communism of love and production.... The Hutterites also
found substantiation for their communism in the Pseudo-
Clementine Epistle IV...developed in Ebionite anti-Pauline
circles. Neo-Pythagorean and Stoic ideas of a golden age were
here conflated with the 'memory' of a primitive communism. "In
the ninth century, the [Pseudo-]Clementine letters were
incorporated into the Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals.... [The
Anabaptist Sebastian] Franck excerpted the letters, in his
Chronica of 1531. It is quite probably from Franck that a later
Hutterite article quotes 'Clement' -- supposedly writing in A.D.
92 [cf. Philippians 4:3].... "The Hutterites believed that God
from the beginning had commanded the communitarian way of
life.... There was the eschatological paradisic interpretation
of the community as the true church." Even more important than
the fourth was the so-called Fifth Letter of (Pseu