1 Clement 51.1

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

Summary: Seek forgiveness; the ringleaders should consider the common hope.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:96

Ὅσα οὖν παρεπέσαμεν καὶ ἐποιήσαμεν διά τινας παρεμπτώσεις τοῦ ἀντικειμένου, ἀξιώσωμεν ἀφεθῆναι ἡμῖν. καὶ ἐκεῖνοι δέ, οἵτινες ἀρχηγοὶ στάσεως καὶ διχοστασίας ἐγενήθησαν, ὀφείλουσιν τὸ κοινὸν τῆς ἐλπίδος σκοπεῖν.

English · Claude translation

Whatever sins, then, we have committed and whatever we have done through any of the assaults of the adversary, let us ask that they be forgiven us. And those who became leaders of the faction and dissension ought to look to the common ground of our hope.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:96 · 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

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Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): δια τινας → διά τινας.

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1 Clem. 51.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/51/1/).

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1 Clem. 51.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/51/1/).

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