2 Clement 1.7

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: God saved us out of mercy when we had no hope.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:130

ἠλέησεν γὰρ ἡμᾶς καὶ σπλαγχνισθεὶς ἔσωσεν, θεασάμενος ἐν ἡμῖν πολλὴν πλάνην καὶ ἀπώλειαν, καὶ μηδεμίαν ἐλπίδα ἔχοντας σωτηρίας, εἰ μὴ τὴν παρʼ αὐτοῦ.

English · Claude translation

For he had mercy on us and in compassion saved us, when he saw in us much error and destruction, and that we had no hope of salvation except that which comes from him.

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:130 · 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)

Scripture

Eph 2:12 · echo, low confidence

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2 Clem. 1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/1/7/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 1.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/1/7/).

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