Sophia Scriptura

2 Clement 7.1

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

Summary: Like athletes, let us compete for the crown.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:138

Ὥστε οὖν, ἀδελφοί μου, ἀγωνισώμεθα εἰδότες, ὅτι ἐν χερσὶν ὁ ἀγὼν καὶ ὅτι εἰς τοὺς φθαρτοὺς ἀγῶνας καταπλέουσιν πολλοί, ἀλλʼ οὐ πάντες στεφανοῦνται, εἰ μὴ οἱ πολλὰ κοπιάσαντες καὶ καλῶς ἀγωνισάμενοι.

English · Claude translation

So then, my brothers, let us compete, knowing that the contest is at hand, and that many sail in to the perishable contests, but not all are crowned, only those who have toiled hard and competed well.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:138 · 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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The image is the athletic games, such as the Isthmian Games held near Corinth, to which competitors “sailed in.” Some have taken this as a hint that the sermon was preached at Corinth.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (garbled verb ending and stray punctuation); digitization slip against Lake's printed text (missing accent)): ἀδελφοι μου → ἀδελφοί μου; καταπλέουσα· πολλοί → καταπλέουσιν πολλοί.

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2 Clem. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/7/1/).

Plain text
2 Clem. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/7/1/).

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