2 Clement 3.1

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

Summary: To know the Father is not to deny Christ, through whom we know him.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:132

Τοσοῦτον οὖν ἔλεος ποιήσαντος αὐτοῦ εἰς ἡμᾶς, πρῶτον μέν, ὅτι ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες τοῖς νεκροῖς θεοῖς οὐ θύομεν καὶ οὐ προσκυνοῦμεν αὐτοῖς, ἀλλὰ ἔγνωμεν διʼ αὐτοῦ τὸν πατέρα τῆς ἀληθείας· τίς ἡ γνῶσις ἡ πρὸς αὐτόν, ἢ τὸ μὴ ἀρνεῖσθαι διʼ οὗ ἔγνωμεν αὐτόν;

English · Claude translation

Since, then, he has shown us such mercy, first of all that we who are living do not sacrifice to dead gods or worship them, but through him have come to know the Father of truth: what is knowledge of him, except not to deny him through whom we have known him?

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:132 · 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

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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing and accent)): διʼ οὖ ἔγνωμεν → διʼ οὗ ἔγνωμεν.

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2 Clem. 3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/3/1/).

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2 Clem. 3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/3/1/).

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