1 Clement 36.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:70

διὰ τούτου ἀτενίζομεν εἰς τὰ ὕψη τῶν οὐρανῶν, διὰ τούτου ἐνοπτριζόμεθα τὴν ἄμωμον καὶ ὑπερτάτην ὄψιν αὐτοῦ, διὰ τούτου ἠνεῴχθησαν ἡμῶν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ τῆς καρδίας, διὰ τούτου ἡ ἀσύνετος καὶ ἐσκοτωμένη διάνοια ἡμῶν ἀναθάλλει εἰς τὸ φῶς, διὰ τούτου ἠθέλησεν ὁ δεσπότης τῆς ἀθανάτου γνώσεως ἡμᾶς γεύσασθαι, ὃς ὢν ἀπαύγασμα τῆς μεγαλωσύνης αὐτοῦ, τοσούτῳ μείζων ἐστὶν ἀγγέλων, ὅσῳ διαφορώτερον ὄνομα κεκληρονόμηκεν.

English · Claude translation

Through him we fix our gaze on the heights of heaven; through him we see as in a mirror his blameless and supreme face; through him the eyes of our heart were opened; through him our foolish and darkened mind springs up into the light; through him the Master willed that we should taste immortal knowledge. He, being the radiance of his majesty, is as much greater than the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:70 · 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

Heb 1:3 · allusion, high confidence
Heb 1:4 · allusion, high confidence
2 Cor 3:18 · echo, medium confidence
Eph 1:18 · echo, medium confidence
Rom 1:21 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

36.2–5 closely follow Heb 1:3–13.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ὃς ὦν ἀπαύγασμα → ὃς ὢν ἀπαύγασμα.

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/36/2/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/36/2/).