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1 Clement 13.1

Clement of Rome · 1 Clement · ca. 95–97 (range ca. 70–100) · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Be humble, boasting only in the Lord, and remember Jesus's teaching.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:28–30

Ταπεινοφρονήσωμεν οὖν, ἀδελφοί, ἀποθέμενοι πᾶσαν ἀλαζονείαν καὶ τῦφος καὶ ἀφροσύνην καὶ ὀργάς, καὶ ποιήσωμεν τὸ γεγραμμένον, λέγει γὰρ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· Μὴ καυχάσθω ὁ σοφὸς ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ αὐτοῦ μηδὲ ὁ ἰσχυρὸς ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ αὐτοῦ μηδὲ ὁ πλούσιος ἐν τῷ πλούτῳ αὐτοῦ, ἀλλʼ ὁ καυχώμενος ἐν κυρίῳ καυχάσθω, τοῦ ἐκζητεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ ποιεῖν κρίμα καὶ δικαιοσύνην· μάλιστα μεμνημένοι τῶν λόγων τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ, οὓς ἐλάλησεν διδάσκων ἐπιείκειαν καὶ μακροθυμίαν.

English · Claude translation

Let us therefore be humble-minded, brothers, laying aside all arrogance and conceit and folly and anger, and let us do what is written, for the Holy Spirit says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the rich man in his riches; but let him who boasts boast in the Lord, to seek him and to do judgment and righteousness”; especially remembering the words of the Lord Jesus which he spoke when he was teaching gentleness and patience.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:28–30 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 8–121 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (digitization slip: stray letter in the transcription): ἀλλʼ ἡ ὁ καυχώμενος → ἀλλʼ ὁ καυχώμενος.

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1 Clem. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/13/1/).

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1 Clem. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/13/1/).

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