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1 Clement 27.5

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

Summary: No one can resist God's power.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:54

Τίς ἐρεῖ αὐτῷ· Τί ἐποίησας; ἢ τίς ἀντιστήσεται τῷ κράτει τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ; ὅτε θέλει καὶ ὡς θέλει ποιήσει πάντα, καὶ οὐδὲν μὴ παρέλθῃ τῶν δεδογματισμένων ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

“Who will say to him, ‘What have you done?’ Or who will resist the might of his strength?” When he wills and as he wills he will do all things, and none of the things he has decreed will pass away.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:54 · 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
Extrabiblical texts
  • Wis 12:12 (Wisdom of Solomon) · quotation, high confidence

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1 Clem. 27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/27/5/).

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1 Clem. 27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/27/5/).

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