1 Clement 34.1

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

Summary: The good worker has confidence before his employer.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:64

Ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἐργάτης μετὰ παρρησίας λαμβάνει τὸν ἄρτον τοῦ ἔργου αὐτοῦ, ὁ νωθρὸς καὶ παρειμένος οὐκ ἀντοφθαλμεῖ τῷ ἐργοπαρέκτῃ αὐτοῦ.

The good worker receives the bread of his work with confidence; the lazy and careless worker does not look his employer in the face.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:64 · 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: Ethics

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip at the end of the section in the digital text): ἐργοπαρέκτῃ αὐτοῦ, → ἐργοπαρέκτῃ αὐτοῦ..

1 Clem. 34.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/34/1/).

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1 Clem. 34.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/34/1/).