2 Clement 2.3

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

Summary: The Gentile believers now outnumber those who seemed to have God.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:130

ὃ δὲ εἶπεν· Ὅτι πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα· ἐπεὶ ἔρημος ἐδόκει εἶναι ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ λαὸς ἡμῶν. νυνὶ δὲ πιστεύσαντες πλείονες ἐγενόμεθα τῶν δοκούντων ἔχειν θεόν.

English · Claude translation

And when he said, “For the children of the desolate are more than of her who has the husband,” he meant that our people seemed to be deserted by God, but now that we have believed we have become more numerous than those who seem to have God.

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.

Notes

Translation notes

“Those who seem to have God”: probably the Jewish people.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (dropped letter)): δ δὲ εἶπεν → ὃ δὲ εἶπεν.

Cite this passage

2 Clem. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/2/3/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/2/3/).

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