Sophia Scriptura

2 Clement 4.5

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: A saying of the Lord: those who do not obey will be cast out.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:134

διὰ τοῦτο, ταῦτα ὑμῶν πρασσόντων, εἶπεν ὁ κύριος· Ἐὰν ἦτε μετʼ ἐμοῦ συνηγμένοι ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ μου καὶ μὴ ποιῆτε τὰς ἐντολάς μου, ἀποβαλῶ ὑμᾶς καὶ ἐρῶ ὑμῖν· Ὑπάγετε ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, οὐκ οἶδα ὑμᾶς, πόθεν ἐστέ, ἐργάται ἀνομίας.

English · Claude translation

For this reason, if you do these things, the Lord said, “Even if you are gathered with me in my bosom and do not do my commandments, I will cast you out and say to you, ‘Depart from me; I do not know you, where you are from, you workers of lawlessness.’”

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:134 · 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

  • “If you do these things”: that is, the opposite works just mentioned.
  • This saying is not found in this form in the canonical Gospels; its end is close to Matt 7:23 and Luke 13:27. Its source is unknown.

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2 Clem. 4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/4/5/).

Plain text
2 Clem. 4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/4/5/).

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