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1 Clement 4.10

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

Summary: Jealousy forced Moses to flee Egypt.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:14–16

ζῆλος φυγεῖν ἠνάγκασεν Μωϋσῆν ἀπὸ προσώπου Φαραὼ βασιλέως Αἰγύπτου ἐν τῷ ἀκοῦσαι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὁμοφύλου· Τίς σε κατέστησεν κριτὴν ἢ δικαστὴν ἐφʼ ἡμῶν; μὴ ἀνελεῖν με σὺ θέλεις, ὃν τρόπον ἀνεῖλες ἐχθὲς τὸν Αἰγύπτιον;

English · Claude translation

Jealousy forced Moses to flee from the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, when he heard from his own countryman, “Who made you a judge or a ruler over us? Do you want to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:14–16 · 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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Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip: letter misread in the transcription): Λἰγύπτιον → Αἰγύπτιον.

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1 Clem. 4.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/4/10/).

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1 Clem. 4.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/4/10/).

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