1 Clement 7.5

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

Summary: God has always given opportunity to repent.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:20

διέλθωμεν εἰς τὰς γενεὰς πάσας, καὶ καταμάθωμεν ὅτι ἐν γενεᾷ καὶ γενεᾷ μετανοίας τόπον ἔδωκεν ὁ δεσπότης τοῖς βουλομένοις ἐπιστραφῆναι ἐπʼ αὐτόν.

English · Claude translation

Let us go through all the generations and learn that in generation after generation the Master has given opportunity for repentance to those who wished to turn to him.

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:20 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Wis 12:10 (Wisdom of Solomon) · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): ὀ δεσπότης → ὁ δεσπότης.

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1 Clem. 7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/7/5/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 7.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/7/5/).

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