Sophia Scriptura

1 Clement 55.6

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

Summary: Esther risked her life and saved her people by fasting and prayer.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:102

οὐχ ἧττον καὶ ἡ τελεία κατὰ πίστιν Ἐσθὴρ κινδύνῳ ἑαυτὴν παρέβαλεν, ἵνα τὸ ἔθνος τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ μέλλον ἀπολέσθαι ῥύσηται· διὰ γὰρ τῆς νηστείας καὶ τῆς ταπεινώσεως αὐτῆς ἠξίωσεν τὸν παντεπόπτην δεσπότην τῶν αἰώνων· ὃς ἰδὼν τὸ ταπεινὸν τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῆς ἐρύσατο τὸν λαόν, ὧν χάριν ἐκινδύνευσεν.

English · Claude translation

No less did Esther, perfect in faith, expose herself to danger to rescue the nation of Israel when it was about to perish; for through her fasting and humiliation she entreated the all-seeing Master of the ages, who, seeing the humility of her soul, rescued the people for whose sake she had put herself at risk.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:102 · 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.
Scripture
Topics
Fasting, Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

  • Esther's fasting and prayer are told most fully in the Greek additions to Esther.

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1 Clem. 55.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/55/6/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 55.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/55/6/).

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