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1 Clement 46.7

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

Summary: Division tears apart Christ's body.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:88

ἱνατί διέλκομεν καὶ διασπῶμεν τὰ μέλη τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ στασιάζομεν πρὸς τὸ σῶμα τὸ ἴδιον, καὶ εἰς τοσαύτην ἀπόνοιαν ἐρχόμεθα, ὥστε ἐπιλαθέσθαι ἡμᾶς, ὅτι μέλη ἐσμὲν ἀλλήλων; μνήσθητε τῶν λόγων τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ.

English · Claude translation

Why do we tear apart and rend the members of Christ, and rebel against our own body, and reach such a pitch of madness as to forget that we are members of one another? Remember the words of the Lord Jesus.

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:88 · 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. 46.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/46/7/).

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1 Clem. 46.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/1-clement/46/7/).

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