2 Clement 1.3

Anonymous · 2 Clement · ca. 100–150 · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: What can we give Christ in return for all he has given?

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:128

τίνα οὖν ἡμεῖς αὐτῷ δώσομεν ἀντιμισθίαν, ἢ τίνα καρπὸν ἄξιον οὗ ἡμῖν αὐτὸς ἔδωκεν; πόσα δὲ αὐτῷ ὀφείλομεν ὅσια;

What repayment, then, shall we give him, or what fruit worthy of what he himself has given us? And how many holy duties do we owe him?

Source: Lake, LCL 24:128 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 128–161 · 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.

“Holy duties” (ὅσια): literally “holy things”; perhaps “benefits”, the things he has done for us, which we owe in return.

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing and accent)): ἄξιον οὖ ἡμῖν → ἄξιον οὗ ἡμῖν.

2 Clem. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/1/3/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/1/3/).