2 Clement 9.10

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

Summary: Praise God from the heart, not only the lips.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:142

δῶμεν οὖν αὐτῷ αἶνον, μὴ ἀπὸ στόματος μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπὸ καρδίας, ἵνα ἡμᾶς προσδέξηται ὡς υἱούς.

Let us, then, give him praise, not from the mouth only but also from the heart, so that he may receive us as sons.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:142 · 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: Prayer

2 Clem. 9.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/9/10/).

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2 Clem. 9.10 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/9/10/).