1 Clement 32.4 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:62

καὶ ἡμεῖς οὖν, διὰ θελήματος αὐτοῦ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ κληθέντες, οὐ διʼ ἑαυτῶν δικαιούμεθα, οὐδὲ διὰ τῆς ἡμετέρας σοφίας ἢ συνέσεως ἢ εὐσεβείας ἢ ἔργων ὧν κατειργασάμεθα ἐν ὁσιότητι καρδίας, ἀλλὰ διὰ τῆς πίστεως, διʼ ἧς πάντας τοὺς ἀπʼ αἰῶνος ὁ παντοκράτωρ θεὸς ἐδικαίωσεν· ᾧ ἔστω ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.

English · Claude translation

And we, therefore, who have been called through his will in Christ Jesus, are not justified through ourselves, nor through our own wisdom or understanding or piety or the works we have done in holiness of heart, but through faith, through which the almighty God has justified all people from the beginning; to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:62 · 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.

Scripture

Rom 3:28 · echo, medium confidence
Eph 2:8 · echo, medium confidence
Titus 3:5 · echo, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Clement here says believers are justified “through faith” and not “through the works we have done” (compare Rom 3:28; Gal 2:16). Chapter 33 immediately adds that this is no reason to stop doing good.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (damaged characters in the digital text, restored from Lake's printed text; digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): ἔργων ὦν → ἔργων ὧν; διʼ ἦς → διʼ ἧς; ʽ??ʼ παντοκράτωρ → ὁ παντοκράτωρ.