All that can be at present done is to point out that the solution of this problem and that of such quotations as the one discussed in Clement hang together, and that while the one remains open the other must also.
Looking at the arguments on both sides, so far as we can give them, I incline on the whole to the opinion that Clement is not quoting directly from our Gospels, but I am quite aware of the insecure ground on which this opinion rests.

It is a nice balance of probabilities, and the element of ignorance is so large that the conclusion, whatever it is, must be purely provisional.
Anything like confident dogmatism on the subject seems to me entirely out of place.
Very much the same is to be said of the second passage in c.

xlvi compared with Matt.xxvi.24, xviii.

6, or Luke xvii.

1, 2.