2 Clement 17.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:156

καὶ μὴ μόνον ἄρτι δοκῶμεν πιστεύειν καὶ προσέχειν ἐν τῷ νουθετεῖσθαι ἡμᾶς ὑπὸ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅταν εἰς οἶκον ἀπαλλαγῶμεν, μνημονεύωμεν τῶν τοῦ κυρίου ἐνταλμάτων καὶ μὴ ἀντιπαρελκώμεθα ἀπὸ τῶν κοσμικῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν, ἀλλὰ πυκνότερον προσερχόμενοι πειρώμεθα προκόπτειν ἐν ταῖς ἐντολαῖς τοῦ κυρίου, ἵνα πάντες τὸ αὐτὸ φρονοῦντες συνηγμένοι ὦμεν ἐπὶ τὴν ζωήν·

English · Claude translation

And let us not seem to believe and pay attention only now, while we are being admonished by the presbyters; but also when we have gone home, let us remember the Lord's commandments, and not be dragged away by worldly desires, but coming together more often let us try to make progress in the commandments of the Lord, so that all of us, being of one mind, may be gathered together to life.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:156 · 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

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

The sermon was delivered in the assembly, where the presbyters admonished the congregation.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong ending; punctuation)): τοῦ κυρίον. ἵνα → τοῦ κυρίου, ἵνα.