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1 Clement 12.5

Clement of Rome · 1 Clement · ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Rahab confessed that God was giving Israel the land.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:28

καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς τοὺς ἄνδρας· Γινώσκουσα γινώσκω ἐγώ, ὅτι κύριος ὁ θεὸς παραδίδωσιν ὑμῖν τὴν γῆν ταύτην· ὁ γὰρ φόβος καὶ ὁ τρόμος ὑμῶν ἐπέπεσεν τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν αὐτήν. ὡς ἐὰν οὖν γένηται λαβεῖν αὐτὴν ὑμᾶς, διασώσατέ με καὶ τὸν οἶκον τοῦ πατρός μου.

English · Claude translation

And she said to the men, “I know for certain that the Lord God is handing this land over to you; for fear and dread of you have fallen on its inhabitants. So when you come to take it, save me and my father's house.”

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Lake, LCL 24:28 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 8–121 · 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
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.
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1 Clem. 12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/12/5/).

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1 Clem. 12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/12/5/).

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