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1 Clement 12.7

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

Summary: Rahab's scarlet cord foreshadowed redemption through Christ's blood.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:28

καὶ προσέθεντο αὐτῇ δοῦναι σημεῖον, ὅπως ἐκκρεμάσῃ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτῆς κόκκινον, πρόδηλον ποιοῦντες, ὅτι διὰ τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ κυρίου λύτρωσις ἔσται πᾶσιν τοῖς πιστεύουσιν καὶ ἐλπίζουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν θεόν.

English · Claude translation

And they went on to give her a sign: that she should hang out a scarlet thread from her house, making it plain that through the blood of the Lord there will be redemption for all who believe and hope in God.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:28 · 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

Translation notes

  • The earliest known Christian reading of Rahab's scarlet cord as a sign of Christ's blood.

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1 Clem. 12.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/12/7/).

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1 Clem. 12.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/12/7/).

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