1 Clement 58.2

Summary: An oath by God, Christ, and the Spirit: the humble and obedient will be saved.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:108–110

δέξασθε τὴν συμβουλὴν ἡμῶν, καὶ ἔσται ἀμεταμέλητα ὑμῖν. ζῇ γὰρ ὁ θεὸς καὶ ζῇ ὁ κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, ἥ τε πίστις καὶ ἡ ἐλπὶς τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν, ὅτι ὁ ποιήσας ἐν ταπεινοφροσύνῃ μετʼ ἐκτενοῦς ἐπιεικείας ἀμεταμελήτως τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ δεδομένα δικαιώματα καὶ προστάγματα, οὗτος ἐντεταγμένος καὶ ἐλλόγιμος ἔσται εἰς τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν σωζομένων διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, διʼ οὗ ἐστὶν αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν.

English · Claude translation

Accept our counsel, and you will have nothing to regret. For as God lives, and as the Lord Jesus Christ lives, and the Holy Spirit, the faith and hope of the elect, whoever with humility and eager gentleness keeps without regret the ordinances and commandments given by God will be enrolled and counted among the number of those who are saved through Jesus Christ, through whom be glory to him forever and ever. Amen.

About this passage

Source
Lake, LCL 24:108–110 · 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.
Topics
Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

  • The oath names God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit together, an early threefold formula.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): διʼ οὖ ἐστὶν → διʼ οὗ ἐστὶν.

Cite this passage

1 Clem. 58.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/58/2/).

Plain text
1 Clem. 58.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/58/2/).

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