2 Clement 1.3

Anonymous · 2 Clement · ca. 100–150 · place unknown · Read in context

Traditional ascription rejected: An anonymous sermon, transmitted in the manuscripts after 1 Clement as Clement's “second letter to the Corinthians.” The text itself names no author and is not a letter; the ascription to Clement of Rome is traditional and not accepted by modern scholars.

Summary: What can we give Christ in return for all he has given?

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:128

τίνα οὖν ἡμεῖς αὐτῷ δώσομεν ἀντιμισθίαν, ἢ τίνα καρπὸν ἄξιον οὗ ἡμῖν αὐτὸς ἔδωκεν; πόσα δὲ αὐτῷ ὀφείλομεν ὅσια;

English · Claude translation

What repayment, then, shall we give him, or what fruit worthy of what he himself has given us? And how many holy duties do we owe him?

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:128 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 128–161 · 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. 9 (1896) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Notes

Translation notes

“Holy duties” (ὅσια): literally “holy things”; perhaps “benefits”, the things he has done for us, which we owe in return.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing and accent)): ἄξιον οὖ ἡμῖν → ἄξιον οὗ ἡμῖν.

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2 Clem. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/1/3/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/1/3/).

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