1 Clement 2.3

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

Summary: They prayed for forgiveness even of unintended sins.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:10

μεστοί τε ὁσίας βουλῆς, ἐν ἀγαθῇ προθυμίᾳ μετʼ εὐσεβοῦς πεποιθήσεως ἐξετείνετε τὰς χεῖρας ὑμῶν πρὸς τὸν παντοκράτορα θεόν, ἱκετεύοντες αὐτὸν ἵλεως γενέσθαι, εἴ τι ἄκοντες ἡμάρτετε.

English · Claude translation

Full of holy counsel, with good eagerness and devout confidence, you stretched out your hands to almighty God, begging him to be merciful if you had sinned at all unwillingly.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:10 · 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.
Topics: Prayer

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (stray accent)): ἵλέως → ἵλεως.

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1 Clem. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/2/3/).

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1 Clem. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/2/3/).

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