Sophia Scriptura

1 Clement 43.4

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

Summary: The blossoming rod would show God's choice.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:82

καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Ἄνδρες ἀδελφοί, ἧς ἂν φυλῆς ἡ ῥάβδος βλαστήσῃ, ταύτην ἐκλέλεκται ὁ θεὸς εἰς τὸ ἱερατεύειν καὶ λειτουργεῖν αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

and said to them, “Men and brothers, the tribe whose rod blossoms, this God has chosen to serve as priests and to minister to him.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:82 · 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.
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Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): Ἅνδρες → Ἄνδρες; ἦς ἂν → ἧς ἂν.

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1 Clem. 43.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/43/4/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 43.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/43/4/).

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