1 Clement 57.4

Summary: Wisdom will laugh at the disaster of those who refused her.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:106

ἐπειδὴ ἐκάλουν καὶ οὐχ ὑπηκούσατε, καὶ ἐξέτεινον λόγους καὶ οὐ προσείχετε, ἀλλὰ ἀκύρους ἐποιεῖτε τὰς ἐμὰς βουλάς, τοῖς δὲ ἐμοῖς ἐλέγχοις ἠπειθήσατε· τοιγαροῦν κἀγὼ τῇ ὑμετέρᾳ ἀπωλείᾳ ἐπιγελάσομαι, καταχαροῦμαι δὲ ἡνίκα ἂν ἔρχηται ὑμῖν ὄλεθρος καὶ ὡς ἂν ἀφίκηται ὑμῖν ἄφνω θόρυβος, ἡ δὲ καταστροφὴ ὁμοία καταιγίδι παρῇ, ἢ ὅταν ἔρχηται ὑμῖν θλίψις καὶ πολιορκία.

English · Claude translation

Since I called and you did not listen, and I held out words and you paid no attention, but made my counsels void and disobeyed my reproofs, therefore I too will laugh at your destruction and rejoice when ruin comes upon you, and when tumult comes upon you suddenly, and destruction arrives like a whirlwind, or when affliction and siege come upon you.

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Lake, LCL 24:106 · 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
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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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1 Clem. 57.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/57/4/).

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1 Clem. 57.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/57/4/).

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