1 Clement 2.4

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

Summary: They labored in prayer for the salvation of all believers.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:10–12

ἀγὼν ἦν ὑμῖν ἡμέρας τε καὶ νυκτὸς ὑπὲρ πάσης τῆς ἀδελφότητος, εἰς τὸ σώζεσθαι μετʼ ἐλέους καὶ συνειδήσεως τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ.

Day and night you contended for the whole brotherhood, that the number of his elect might be saved with mercy and conscience.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:10–12 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
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.
Topics: Prayer

“With mercy and conscience”: obscure; some editors emend “conscience” (συνειδήσεως) to “concord” or “fear.”

1 Clem. 2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/2/4/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 2.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/2/4/).