2 Clement 5.3

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: Peter asks what if the wolves tear the lambs apart.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:134

ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ ὁ Πέτρος αὐτῷ λέγει· Ἐὰν οὖν διασπαράξωσιν οἱ λύκοι τὰ ἀρνία;

English · Claude translation

And Peter answered and said to him, “What if the wolves tear the lambs to pieces?”

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)

Notes

Translation notes

This dialogue between Jesus and Peter (5.2–4) is not in the canonical Gospels; its source is unknown.

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2 Clem. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/5/3/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/5/3/).

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