2 Clement 12.4

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

Summary: “Outside as inside”: let the soul show itself in good works.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:146

καὶ τὸ ἔξω ὡς τὸ ἔσω, τοῦτο λέγει· τὴν ψυχὴν λέγει τὸ ἔσω, τὸ δὲ ἔξω τὸ σῶμα λέγει. ὃν τρόπον οὖν σου τὸ σῶμα φαίνεται, οὕτως καὶ ἡ ψυχή σου δῆλος ἔστω ἐν τοῖς καλοῖς ἔργοις.

English · Claude translation

And “the outside as the inside” means this: by “the inside” he means the soul, and by “the outside” he means the body. As your body is visible, so let your soul also be evident in good works.

About this passage

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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): λέγει τὸ ἕσω → λέγει τὸ ἔσω.

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2 Clem. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/12/4/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/12/4/).

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