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1 Clement 46.8

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

Summary: Jesus's warning against causing his elect to stumble.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:88

εἶπεν γάρ· Οὐαὶ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐκείνῳ· καλὸν ἦν αὐτῷ, εἰ οὐκ ἐγεννήθη, ἦ ἕνα τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν μου σκανδαλίσαι κρεῖττον ἢν αὐτῷ περιτεθῆναι μύλον καὶ καταπον τισθῆναι εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, ἢ ἕνα τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν μου διαστρέψαι.

English · Claude translation

For he said: “Woe to that man! It would have been better for him not to have been born than to cause one of my elect to stumble. It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around him and be drowned in the sea than to lead astray one of my elect.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:88 · 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

Translation notes

  • A combination of sayings found in Matt 26:24 and Matt 18:6 (Mark 9:42; Luke 17:2).

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1 Clem. 46.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/46/8/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 46.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/46/8/).

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