2 Clement 4.1

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

Summary: Calling Christ “Lord” is not enough.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:132

Μὴ μόνον οὖν αὐτὸν καλῶμεν κύριον· οὐ γὰρ τοῦτο σώσει ἡμᾶς.

Let us, then, not merely call him Lord, for this will not save us.

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.

Digital text corrected (a marginal reference (“Mt. 7, 21”) was run into the text in the digital edition; it is not part of the Greek): Mt. 7, 21Μὴ μόνον → Μὴ μόνον.

2 Clem. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/4/1/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/4/1/).