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2 Clement 12.1

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: Wait for God's kingdom hour by hour, for the day is unknown.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:146

Ἐκδεχώμεθα οὖν καθʼ ὥραν τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν ἀγάπῃ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ οἴδαμεν τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς ἐπιφανείας τοῦ θεοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Let us, then, wait hour by hour for the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we do not know the day of God's appearing.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:146 · 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)
Topics
Eschatology

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing and accent)): καθʼ ῶραν → καθʼ ὥραν.

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2 Clem. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/12/1/).

Plain text
2 Clem. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/12/1/).

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