Sophia Scriptura

2 Clement 5.4

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

Summary: Jesus: do not fear those who kill the body, but God who judges.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:134

εἶπεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς τῷ Πέτρῳ· Μὴ φοβείσθωσαν τὰ ἀρνία τοὺς λύκους μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν αὐτά· καὶ ὑμεῖς μὴ φοβεῖσθε τοὺς ἀποκτέννοντας ὑμᾶς καὶ μηδὲν ὑμῖν δυναμένους ποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ φοβεῖσθε τὸν μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν ὑμᾶς ἔχοντα ἐξουσίαν ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος τοῦ βαλεῖν εἰς γέενναν πυρός.

English · Claude translation

Jesus said to Peter, “Let the lambs not fear the wolves after they are dead. And you, do not fear those who kill you and can do nothing more to you, but fear him who after you are dead has power over soul and body to cast them into the Gehenna of fire.”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:134 · 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
Topics
Persecution, Eschatology

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2 Clem. 5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/5/4/).

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2 Clem. 5.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/5/4/).

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