1 Clement 18.4

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

Summary: “Against you only have I sinned.”

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:40

σοὶ μόνῳ ἥμαρτον, καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιόν σου ἐποίησα, ὅπως ἂν δικαιωθῇς ἐν τοῖς λόγοις σου, καὶ νικήσῃς ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε.

English · Claude translation

Against you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and prevail when you are judged.

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:40 · 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 51:4 (50:6 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): λόγοις σου. καὶ νικήσῃς → λόγοις σου, καὶ νικήσῃς.

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 18.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/18/4/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 18.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/18/4/).

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