1 Clement 60.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: A prayer for God's favor and protection.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:114

ναί, δέσποτα, ἐπίφανον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς εἰς ἀγαθὰ ἐν εἰρήνῃ, εἰς τὸ σκεπασθῆναι ἡμᾶς τῇ χειρί σου τῇ κραταιᾷ καὶ ῥυσθῆναι ἀπὸ πάσης ἁμαρτίας τῷ βραχίονί σου τῷ ὑψηλῷ, καὶ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῶν μισούντων ἡμᾶς ἀδίκως.

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:114 · 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

Num 6:25 · allusion, high confidence
Ps 80:3 (79:4 LXX) · allusion, medium confidence
Deut 4:34 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Prayer

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1 Clem. 60.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/60/3/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 60.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/60/3/).

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:114

English · Claude translation

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