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1 Clement 23.4

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

Summary: Like fruit on a vine, God's promises ripen in their time.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:50

ὦ ἀνόητοι, συμβάλετε ἑαυτοὺς ξύλῳ· λάβετε ἄμπελον· πρῶτον μὲν φυλλοροεῖ, εἶτα βλαστὸς γίνεται, εἶτα φύλλον, εἶτα ἄνθος, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ὄμφαξ, εἶτα σταφυλὴ παρεστηκυῖα. ὁρᾶτε, ὅτι ἐν καιρῷ ὀλίγῳ εἰς πέπειρον καταντᾷ ὁ καρπὸς τοῦ ξύλου.

English · Claude translation

You fools, compare yourselves to a tree; take a vine: first it sheds its leaves, then comes a shoot, then a leaf, then a flower, and after that the sour grape, then the ripe bunch.’ You see that in a short time the fruit of the tree comes to ripeness.

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Lake, LCL 24:50 · 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 against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing and accent)): ὧ ἀνόητοι → ὦ ἀνόητοι.

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1 Clem. 23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/23/4/).

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1 Clem. 23.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/23/4/).

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