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1 Clement 14.5

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

Summary: The proud vanish, but the peaceable have a future.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:32

καὶ πάλιν λέγει· Εἶδον ἀσεβῆ ὑπερυψούμενον καὶ ἐπαιρόμενον ὡς τὰς κέδρους τοῦ Λιβάνου· καὶ παρῆλθον, καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐκ ἦν, καὶ ἐξεζήτησα τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐχ εὗρον. φύλασσε ἀκακίαν καὶ ἴδε εὐθύτητα, ὅτι ἐστὶν ἐγκατάλειμμα ἀνθρώπῳ εἰρηνικῷ.

English · Claude translation

And again he says: “I saw the ungodly exalted and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon; and I passed by, and behold, he was not, and I sought his place and did not find it. Keep innocence and look on uprightness, for there is a remnant for the peaceable man.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:32 · 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.
Scripture
  • Ps 37:35 (36:35 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 37:36 (36:36 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 37:37 (36:37 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

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1 Clem. 14.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/14/5/).

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1 Clem. 14.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/14/5/).

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