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2 Clement 5.1

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: We are only sojourners; do God's will and do not fear leaving this world.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:134

Ὅθεν, ἀδελφοί, καταλείψαντες τὴν παροικίαν τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ποιήσωμεν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ καλέσαντος ἡμᾶς, καὶ μὴ φοβηθῶμεν ἐξελθεῖν ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου.

English · Claude translation

Therefore, brothers, let us leave our sojourn in this world and do the will of him who called us, and let us not be afraid to depart from this world.

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

  • “Sojourn” (παροικία): living as a resident foreigner; compare the greeting of 1 Clement and 1 Pet 1:17.

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2 Clem. 5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/5/1/).

Plain text
2 Clem. 5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/5/1/).

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