1 Clement 61.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: A prayer that God guide rulers to govern well.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:114–116

σὺ γάρ, δέσποτα ἐπουράνιε, βασιλεῦ τῶν αἰώνων, δίδως τοῖς υἱοῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων δόξαν καὶ τιμὴν καὶ ἐξουσίαν τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὑπαρχόντων· σύ, κύριε, διεύθυνον τὴν βουλὴν αὐτῶν κατὰ τὸ καλὸν καὶ εὐάρεστον ἐνώπιόν σου, ὅπως διέποντες ἐν εἰρήνῃ καὶ πραΰτητι εὐσεβῶς τὴν ὑπὸ σοῦ αὐτοῖς δεδομένην ἐξουσίαν ἵλεώ σου τυγχάνωσιν.

English · Claude translation

For you, heavenly Master, King of the ages, give to the sons of men glory and honor and authority over the things on the earth. Direct, Lord, their counsel according to what is good and pleasing before you, so that, administering in peace and gentleness with godliness the authority given them by you, they may find you merciful.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:114–116 · 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

1 Tim 1:17 · echo, medium confidence
Dan 2:37 · echo, low confidence

Topics

Prayer

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 61.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/61/2/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 61.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/61/2/).