Sophia Scriptura

1 Clement 39.5

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

Summary: Mortals are frail and perish.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:74–76

οὐρανὸς δὲ οὐ καθαρὸς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ· ἔα δέ, οἱ κατοικοῦντες οἰκίας πηλίνας, ἐξ ὧν καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ πηλοῦ ἐσμεν· ἔπαισεν αὐτοὺς σητὸς τρόπον, καὶ ἀπὸ πρωΐθεν ἕως ἑσπέρας οὐκ ἔτι εἰσίν· παρὰ τὸ μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτοὺς ἑαυτοῖς βοηθῆσαι ἀπώλοντο.

English · Claude translation

Heaven is not pure in his sight; how much less those who dwell in houses of clay, of which we ourselves are made, of the same clay. He struck them like a moth, and from morning to evening they are no more; because they could not help themselves, they perished.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:74–76 · 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

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 39.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/39/5/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 39.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/39/5/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Report an error in this passage