2 Clement 12.3

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

Summary: “Two are one” means truthfulness and oneness of soul.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:146

τὰ δύο δὲ ἕν ἐστιν, ὅταν λαλῶμεν ἑαυτοῖς ἀλήθειαν καὶ ἐν δυσὶ σώμασιν ἀνυποκρίτως εἴη μία ψυχή.

Now “the two are one” when we speak truth to one another, and there is one soul in two bodies without hypocrisy.

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.

2 Clem. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/12/3/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/12/3/).