1 Clement 44.4

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

Summary: Deposing blameless bishops is a serious sin.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:84

ἁμαρτία γὰρ οὐ μικρὰ ἡμῖν ἔσται, ἐὰν τοὺς ἀμέμπτως καὶ ὁσίως προσενεγκόντας τὰ δῶρα τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς ἀποβάλωμεν.

For it will be no small sin for us if we depose from the office of bishop those who have offered the gifts blamelessly and in holiness.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:84 · 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, Eucharist

“Offered the gifts”: probably the church's offerings in worship, including the Eucharist.

1 Clem. 44.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/44/4/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 44.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/44/4/).