1 Clement 39.7

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

Summary: Anger and envy destroy the foolish.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:76

ἐπικάλεσαι δέ, εἴ τίς σοι ὑπακούσεται, ἢ εἴ τινα ἁγίων ἀγγέλων ὄψῃ· καὶ γὰρ ἄφρονα ἀναιρεῖ ὀργή, πεπλανημένον δὲ θανατοῖ ζῆλος.

English · Claude translation

But call, if anyone will answer you, or if you will see any of the holy angels; for anger destroys the fool, and envy kills the one who has gone astray.

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Source

Lake, LCL 24:76 · 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.

Scripture

Job 5:1 · quotation, high confidence
Job 5:2 · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong accent); punctuation slip in the digital text (the sentence continues)): ἤ εἴ τινα → ἢ εἴ τινα; ὀργή. πεπλανημένον → ὀργή, πεπλανημένον.

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1 Clem. 39.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/39/7/).

Plain text

1 Clem. 39.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/39/7/).

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