2 Clement 14.4

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

Summary: To abuse the flesh is to abuse the church, and to lose the Spirit.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:152

εἰ δὲ λέγομεν εἶναι τὴν σάρκα τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα Χριστόν, ἄρα οὖν ὁ ὑβρίσας τὴν σάρκα ὕβρισεν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. ὁ τοιοῦτος οὖν οὐ μεταλήψεται τοῦ πνεύματος, ὅ ἐστιν ὁ Χριστός.

English · Claude translation

But if we say that the flesh is the church and the Spirit is Christ, then whoever has abused the flesh has abused the church. Such a person, then, will not share in the Spirit, which is Christ.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:152 · 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: Christology

Notes

Translation notes

“The Spirit, which is Christ”: the preacher's language about Christ and the Spirit is not yet precise; compare 9.5.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): Χριστόν. ἄρα οὖν → Χριστόν, ἄρα οὖν.

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2 Clem. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/14/4/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/14/4/).

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