2 Clement 10.3

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.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:142–144

διὰ ταύτην γὰρ τὴν αἰτίαν οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν ἄνθρωπον, οἵτινες παράγουσι φόβους ἀνθρωπίνους, προῃρημένοι μᾶλλον τὴν ἐνθάδε ἀπόλαυσιν ἢ τὴν μέλλουσαν ἐπαγγελίαν.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:142–144 · 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

The Greek of this sentence is difficult and probably damaged (“a man… they”); editors propose various corrections. The sense seems to be that those who spread fear and love present pleasure cannot find peace.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent)): ἀπόλαυσιν ἡ τὴν μέλλουσαν → ἀπόλαυσιν ἢ τὴν μέλλουσαν.

Cite this passage

2 Clem. 10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/10/3/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 10.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/10/3/).