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2 Clement 13.2

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: God's name is blasphemed when his people do not obey.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:148

λέγει γὰρ ὁ κύριος· Διὰ παντὸς τὸ ὄνομά μου βλασφημεῖται ἐν πᾶσιν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, καὶ πάλιν· Οὐαὶ διʼ ὃν βλασφημεῖται τὸ ὄνομά μου. ἐν τίνι βλασφημεῖται; ἐν τῷ μὴ ποιεῖν ὑμᾶς ἃ βούλομαι.

English · Claude translation

For the Lord says, “Continually my name is blasphemed among all the nations,” and again, “Woe to him because of whom my name is blasphemed.” In what is it blasphemed? In your not doing what I desire.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:148 · 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)
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The second quotation is not found in scripture as such; it may be a free form of Isa 52:5.

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2 Clem. 13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/13/2/).

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2 Clem. 13.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/13/2/).

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