2 Clement 7.4

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

Summary: Cheaters in the games are flogged and thrown out.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:138

εἰδέναι ἡμᾶς δεῖ, ὅτι ὁ τὸν φθαρτὸν ἀγῶνα ἀγωνιζόμενος, ἐὰν εὑρεθῇ φθείρων, μαστιγωθεὶς αἴρεται καὶ ἔξω βάλλεται τοῦ σταδίου.

We must know that the one who competes in the perishable contest, if he is found cheating, is flogged, removed, and thrown out of the stadium.

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.

2 Clem. 7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/7/4/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 7.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/7/4/).