Sophia Scriptura

1 Clement 37.5

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

Summary: Like the body's members, all serve the whole.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:72

λάβωμεν τὸ σῶμα ἡμῶν· ἡ κεφαλὴ δίχα τῶν ποδῶν οὐδέν ἐστιν, οὕτως οὐδὲ οἱ πόδες δίχα τῆς κεφαλῆς· τὰ δὲ ἐλάχιστα μέλη τοῦ σώματος ἡμῶν ἀναγκαῖα καὶ εὔχρηστά εἰσιν ὅλῳ τῷ σώματι· ἀλλὰ πάντα συνπνεῖ καὶ ὑποταγῇ μιᾷ χρῆται εἰς τὸ σώζεσθαι ὅλον τὸ σῶμα.

English · Claude translation

Let us take our body: the head without the feet is nothing, and so are the feet without the head; the smallest members of our body are necessary and useful to the whole body; indeed, all breathe together and are united in one subjection, so that the whole body may be saved.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:72 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (stray iota subscript)): σώμᾳτι → σώματι.

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1 Clem. 37.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/37/5/).

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1 Clem. 37.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/37/5/).

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