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2 Clement 9.5

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: Christ became flesh; so we will be rewarded in the flesh.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:142

εἰ Χριστός, ὁ κύριος ὁ σώσας ἡμᾶς, ὢν μὲν τὸ πρῶτον πνεῦμα, ἐγένετο σὰρξ καὶ οὕτως ἡμᾶς ἐκάλεσεν· οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ σαρκὶ ἀποληψόμεθα τὸν μισθόν.

English · Claude translation

If Christ, the Lord who saved us, being first spirit, became flesh and so called us, so also we shall receive our reward in this flesh.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:142 · 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
Topics
Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Being first spirit, became flesh”: the preacher's way of speaking of the incarnation; compare John 1:14.

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2 Clem. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/9/5/).

Plain text
2 Clem. 9.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/9/5/).

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