Sophia Scriptura

1 Clement 10.4

Clement of Rome · 1 Clement · ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) · Rome · Read in context

Summary: God promised Abraham the land.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:24

καὶ πάλιν ἐν τῷ διαχωρισθῆναι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ Λὼτ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ θεός· Ἀναβλέψας τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς σου ἴδε ἀπὸ τοῦ τόπου, οὗ νῦν σὺ εἶ, πρὸς βορρᾶν καὶ λίβα καὶ ἀνατολὰς καὶ θάλασσαν, ὅτι πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, ἣν σὺ ὁρᾷς, σοὶ δώσω αὐτὴν καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου ἕως αἰῶνος.

English · Claude translation

And again, when he separated from Lot, God said to him: “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you now are, to the north and south and east and west; for all the land that you see, I will give it to you and to your seed forever.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:24 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 8–121 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Lake, LCL 24. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 24, 1912); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · That translation lacks 57.7–63.4 (a missing leaf in its manuscript); vol. 9 (1896) translates the complete text.
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Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing); punctuation slip in the digital text (raised dot before the quotation)): ὁ θεός. Ἀναβλέψας → ὁ θεός· Ἀναβλέψας; οὖ νῦν → οὗ νῦν.

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1 Clem. 10.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/10/4/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 10.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/10/4/).

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