1 Clement 61.3

Summary: The prayer closes with praise through Christ the high priest.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:116

ὁ μόνος δυνατὸς ποιῆσαι ταῦτα καὶ περισσότερα ἀγαθὰ μεθʼ ἡμῶν, σοὶ ἐξομολογούμεθα διὰ τοῦ ἀρχιερέως καὶ προστάτου τῶν ψυχῶν ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, διʼ οὗ σοι ἡ δόξα καὶ ἡ μεγαλωσύνη καὶ νῦν καὶ εἰς γενεὰν γενεῶν καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.

English · Claude translation

You who alone are able to do these things and far greater good things for us, we praise you through the high priest and guardian of our souls, Jesus Christ, through whom be the glory and majesty to you both now and to all generations and forever and ever. Amen.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:116 · 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
Topics
Prayer, Christology

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1 Clem. 61.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/61/3/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 61.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/61/3/).

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