2 Clement 10.1

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

Summary: Pursue virtue and flee vice and ungodliness.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:142

Ὥστε, ἀδελφοί μου, ποιήσωμεν τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ καλέσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἵνα ζήσωμεν, καὶ διώξωμεν μᾶλλον τὴν ἀρετήν, τὴν δὲ κακίαν καταλείψωμεν ὡς προοδοιπόρον τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν, καὶ φύγωμεν τὴν ἀσέβειαν, μὴ ἡμᾶς καταλάβῃ κακά.

English · Claude translation

So, my brothers, let us do the will of the Father who called us, so that we may live; and let us rather pursue virtue, and abandon vice as the forerunner of our sins, and flee ungodliness, so that evils may not overtake us.

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Source: Lake, LCL 24:142 · 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.
Topics: Ethics

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2 Clem. 10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/10/1/).

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2 Clem. 10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/10/1/).

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