2 Clement 5.6

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

Summary: Live holy lives and do not desire worldly things.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:136

τί οὖν ἐστὶν ποιήσαντας ἐπιτυχεῖν αὐτῶν, εἰ μὴ τὸ ὁσίως καὶ δικαίως ἀναστρέφεσθαι καὶ τὰ κοσμικὰ ταῦτα ὡς ἀλλότρια ἡγεῖσθαι καὶ μὴ ἐπιθυμεῖν αὐτῶν;

English · Claude translation

What, then, must we do to obtain these things, except to live in holiness and righteousness, and to regard these worldly things as not our own, and not to desire them?

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 24:136 · 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: Ethics

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2 Clem. 5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/5/6/).

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2 Clem. 5.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/5/6/).

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