2 Clement 20.3

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

Summary: The righteous wait for their reward.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:160

οὐδεὶς τῶν δικαίων ταχὺν καρπὸν ἔλαβεν, ἀλλʼ ἐκδέχεται αὐτόν.

None of the righteous received his fruit quickly, but waits for it.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:160 · 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.

2 Clem. 20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/20/3/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/20/3/).