2 Clement 14.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:150

οὐκ οἴομαι δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν, ὅτι ἐκκλησία ζῶσα σῶμά ἐστιν Χριστοῦ· λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφή· Ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἅρσεν καὶ θῆλυ· τὸ ἄρσεν ἐστὶν ὁ Χριστός, τὸ θῆλυ ἡ ἐκκλησία· καὶ ἔτι τὰ βιβλία καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι τὴν ἐκκλησίαν οὐ νῦν εἶναι λέγουσιν ἀλλὰ ἄνωθεν. ἦν γὰρ πνευματική, ὡς καὶ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἡμῶν, ἐφανερώθη δὲ ἐπʼ ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν, ἵνα ἡμᾶς σώσῃ.

English · Claude translation

And I do not suppose that you are ignorant that the living church is the body of Christ; for the scripture says, “God made man male and female”: the male is Christ, the female is the church. And moreover the books and the apostles say that the church is not of the present but from the beginning. For it was spiritual, as was our Jesus also, but was made manifest in the last days so that he might save us.

About this passage

Source

Lake, LCL 24:150 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1912), 128–161 · 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

Gen 1:27 · quotation, high confidence
Eph 1:22 · allusion, medium confidence
Eph 1:23 · allusion, medium confidence
Eph 5:23 · allusion, medium confidence
Eph 5:32 · allusion, medium confidence
1 Pet 1:20 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology, Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

“The books and the apostles”: probably the Old Testament scriptures and the apostolic writings; an early witness to the two being named together.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong breathing)): τὸν ἅνθρωπον → τὸν ἄνθρωπον.