2 Clement 3.5

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

Summary: Isaiah: honoring God with the lips alone.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:132

λέγει δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἡσαΐᾳ· Ὁ λαὸς οὗτος τοῖς χείλεσίν με τιμᾷ, ἡ δὲ καρδία αὐτῶν πόρρω ἄπεστιν ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ.

English · Claude translation

And he says also in Isaiah, “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”

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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.

Scripture

Isa 29:13 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 15:8 · echo, medium confidence
Mark 7:6 · echo, medium confidence

Cite this passage

2 Clem. 3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/3/5/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/3/5/).

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