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1 Clement 39.4

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

Summary: No mortal is pure before God.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:74

Τί γάρ; μὴ καθαρὸς ἔσται βροτὸς ἔναντι κυρίου; ἢ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ ἄμεμπτος ἀνήρ, εἰ κατὰ παίδων αὐτοῦ οὐ πιστεύει, κατὰ δὲ ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ σκολιόν τι ἐπενόησεν;

English · Claude translation

What then? Shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? Or a man blameless in his works, when he does not trust his servants and has found something crooked in his angels?

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:74 · 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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1 Clem. 39.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/39/4/).

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1 Clem. 39.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/39/4/).

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