Sophia Scriptura

1 Clement 21.6

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

Summary: Reverence Christ, respect leaders, honor elders, teach the young, guide wives in goodness.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:46

τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, οὗ τὸ αἷμα ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἐδόθη, ἐντραπῶμεν, τοὺς προηγουμένους ἡμῶν αἰδεσθῶμεν, τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους τιμήσωμεν, τοὺς νέους παιδεύσωμεν τὴν παιδείαν τοῦ φόβου τοῦ θεοῦ, τὰς γυναῖκας ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τὸ ἀγαθὸν διορθωσώμεθα.

English · Claude translation

Let us reverence the Lord Jesus Christ, whose blood was given for us; let us respect those who lead us; let us honor the older; let us instruct the young in the discipline of the fear of God; let us direct our wives toward what is good.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:46 · 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.
Topics
Church office, Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

  • “The older” (τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους): older men, or the presbyters (see 3.3).

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1 Clem. 21.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/21/6/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 21.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/21/6/).

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