2 Clement 7.1

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.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:138

Ὥστε οὖν, ἀδελφοί μου, ἀγωνισώμεθα εἰδότες, ὅτι ἐν χερσὶν ὁ ἀγὼν καὶ ὅτι εἰς τοὺς φθαρτοὺς ἀγῶνας καταπλέουσιν πολλοί, ἀλλʼ οὐ πάντες στεφανοῦνται, εἰ μὴ οἱ πολλὰ κοπιάσαντες καὶ καλῶς ἀγωνισάμενοι.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:138 · 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)

Scripture

1 Cor 9:24 · echo, medium confidence
1 Cor 9:25 · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The image is the athletic games, such as the Isthmian Games held near Corinth, to which competitors “sailed in.” Some have taken this as a hint that the sermon was preached at Corinth.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (garbled verb ending and stray punctuation); digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): ἀδελφοι μου → ἀδελφοί μου; καταπλέουσα· πολλοί → καταπλέουσιν πολλοί.

Cite this passage

2 Clem. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/7/1/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/7/1/).