1 Clement 17.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:38

Μωυσῆς πιστὸς ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ ἐκλήθη, καὶ διὰ τῆς ὑπηρεσίας αὐτοῦ ἔκρινεν ὁ θεὸς Αἴγυπτον διὰ τῶν μαστίγων καὶ τῶν αἰκισμάτων αὐτῶν· ἀλλὰ κἀκεῖνος δοξασθεὶς μεγάλως οὐκ ἐμεγαλορημόνησεν, ἀλλʼ εἶπεν ἐκ τῆς βάτου χρηματισμοῦ αὐτῷ διδομένου· Τίς εἰμι ἐγώ, ὅτι με πέμπεις; Ἐγὼ δέ εἰμι ἰσχνόφωνος καὶ βραδύγλωσσος.

English · Claude translation

Moses was called “faithful in all his house,” and through his ministry God judged Egypt with its plagues and torments. But he too, though greatly glorified, did not speak boastfully, but when the oracle was given to him from the bush, he said, “Who am I, that you send me? I am weak of voice and slow of tongue.”

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:38 · 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

Num 12:7 · quotation, high confidence
Heb 3:2 · echo, medium confidence
Exod 3:11 · quotation, high confidence
Exod 4:10 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip: letter misread in the transcription): Λἴγυπτον → Αἴγυπτον.

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/17/5/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 17.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/17/5/).