1 Clement 46.3

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

Summary: We become like our companions.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:88

καὶ πάλιν ἐν ἑτέρῳ τόπῳ λέγει· Μετὰ ἀνδρὸς ἀθῷον ἀθῷος ἔσῃ καὶ μετὰ ἐκλεκτοῦ ἐκλεκτὸς ἔσῃ, καὶ μετὰ στρεβλοῦ διαστρέψεις.

English · Claude translation

And again in another place he says: “With an innocent man you will be innocent, and with a chosen man you will be chosen, and with a perverse man you will deal perversely.”

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:88 · 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

Ps 18:25 (17:26 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 18:26 (17:27 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ἔσῃ. καὶ μετὰ στρεβλοῦ → ἔσῃ, καὶ μετὰ στρεβλοῦ.

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 46.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/46/3/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 46.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/46/3/).

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