2 Clement 2.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:130

Εὐφράνθητι, στεῖρα ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα, ῥῆξον καὶ βόησον, ἡ οὐκ ὠδίνουσα, ὅτι πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα. ὃ εἶπεν· Εὐφράνθητι, στεῖρα ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα, ἡμᾶς εἶπεν· στεῖρα γὰρ ἦν ἡ ἐκκλησία ἡμῶν πρὸ τοῦ δοθῆναι αὐτῇ τέκνα.

English · Claude translation

“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry out, you who are not in labor; for the children of the desolate are more than of her who has the husband.” When he said, “Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear,” he meant us: for our church was barren before children were given to it.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:130 · 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.

Scripture

Isa 54:1 · quotation, high confidence
Gal 4:27 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

The sermon's first scripture text; the preacher explains it phrase by phrase (2.1–3).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accents)): στείρα ἦ οὐ τίκτουσα → στεῖρα ἡ οὐ τίκτουσα.