1 Clement 40.3

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

Summary: God determined where and by whom worship is offered.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:76

ποῦ τε καὶ διὰ τίνων ἐπιτελεῖσθαι θέλει, αὐτὸς ὥρισεν τῇ ὑπερτάτῳ αὐτοῦ βουλήσει, ἵνʼ ὁσίως πάντα γινόμενα ἐν εὐδοκήσει εὐπρόσδεκτα εἴη τῷ θελήματι αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Where and by whom he wishes them to be performed, he himself has determined by his supreme will, so that all things done in holiness according to his good pleasure might be acceptable to his will.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:76 · 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

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): βουλήσει. ἵνʼ → βουλήσει, ἵνʼ.

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1 Clem. 40.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/40/3/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 40.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/40/3/).

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