2 Clement 12.1

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

Summary: Wait for God's kingdom hour by hour, for the day is unknown.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:146

Ἐκδεχώμεθα οὖν καθʼ ὥραν τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν ἀγάπῃ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ οἴδαμεν τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς ἐπιφανείας τοῦ θεοῦ.

Let us, then, wait hour by hour for the kingdom of God in love and righteousness, since we do not know the day of God's appearing.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:146 · 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: Eschatology

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing and accent)): καθʼ ῶραν → καθʼ ὥραν.

2 Clem. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/12/1/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/12/1/).