Sophia Scriptura

2 Clement 11.2

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: The prophetic word warns the doubters who say the promises never come.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:144

λέγει γὰρ καὶ ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος· Ταλαίπωροί εἰσιν οἱ δίψυχοι, οἱ διστάζοντες τῇ καρδίᾳ, οἱ λέγοντες· Ταῦτα πάλαι ἠκούσαμεν καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας προσδεχόμενοι οὐδὲν τούτων ἑωράκαμεν.

English · Claude translation

For the prophetic word also says, “Wretched are the double-minded, who doubt in their heart, who say, ‘We heard these things long ago, even in our fathers' time, but we, waiting day after day, have seen none of them.’

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:144 · 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 same unidentified quotation appears in 1 Clem. 23.3–4, where it is called “scripture”; its source is unknown (perhaps a lost apocryphal book).

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2 Clem. 11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/11/2/).

Plain text
2 Clem. 11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/11/2/).

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