2 Clement 14.4

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 24:152

εἰ δὲ λέγομεν εἶναι τὴν σάρκα τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα Χριστόν, ἄρα οὖν ὁ ὑβρίσας τὴν σάρκα ὕβρισεν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. ὁ τοιοῦτος οὖν οὐ μεταλήψεται τοῦ πνεύματος, ὅ ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:152 · 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

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“The Spirit, which is Christ”: the preacher's language about Christ and the Spirit is not yet precise; compare 9.5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): Χριστόν. ἄρα οὖν → Χριστόν, ἄρα οὖν.

Cite this passage

2 Clem. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/14/4/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/14/4/).