1 Clement 16.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:34

Κύριε, τίς ἐπίστευσεν τῇ ἀκοῇ ἡμῶν; καὶ ὁ βραχίων κυρίου τίνι ἀπεκαλύφθη; ἀνηγγείλαμεν ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, ὡς παιδίον, ὡς ῥίζα ἐν γῇ διψώσῃ· οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτῷ εἶδος οὐδὲ δόξα, καὶ εἴδομεν αὐτόν, καὶ οὐκ εἶχεν εἶδος οὐδὲ κάλλος, ἀλλὰ τὸ εἶδος αὐτοῦ ἄτιμον, ἐκλεῖπον παρὰ τὸ εἶδος τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ἄνθρωπος ἐν πληγῇ ὢν καὶ πόνῳ καὶ εἰδὼς φέρειν μαλακίαν, ὅτι ἀπέστραπται τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ, ἠτιμάσθη καὶ οὐκ ἐλογίσθη·

English · Claude translation

“Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? We announced before him, as a child, as a root in thirsty ground. He has no form or glory, and we saw him, and he had neither form nor beauty, but his form was without honor, inferior to the form of men; a man in suffering and in toil, and knowing how to bear weakness; because his face was turned away, he was dishonored and not esteemed.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:34 · 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

Isa 53:1–3 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

Chapter 16 quotes Isa 53:1–12 and Ps 22:6–8 in the Septuagint form.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): Κύριε. τίς → Κύριε, τίς.

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/16/3/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/16/3/).