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1 Clement 35.8

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

Summary: The hypocrite's sins.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:68

σὺ δὲ ἐμίσησας παιδείαν καὶ ἐξέβαλες τοὺς λόγους μου εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω. εἰ ἐθεώρεις κλέπτην, συνέτρεχες αὐτῷ, καὶ μετὰ μοιχῶν τὴν μερίδα σου ἐτίθεις. τὸ στόμα σου ἐπλεόνασεν κακίαν, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα σου περιέπλεκεν δολιότητα. καθήμενος κατὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου κατελάλεις, καὶ κατὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ τῆς μητρός σου ἐτίθεις σκάνδαλον.

English · Claude translation

You hated discipline and threw my words behind you. If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you threw in your lot with adulterers. Your mouth multiplied wickedness, and your tongue wove deceit. You sat and spoke against your brother, and put a stumbling block before your mother's son.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:68 · 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); punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): κλέπτην. συνέτρεχες → κλέπτην, συνέτρεχες; ή γλῶσσα → ἡ γλῶσσα.

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1 Clem. 35.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/35/8/).

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1 Clem. 35.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/35/8/).

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