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2 Clement 3.4

Anonymous · 2 Clement · ca. 100–150 · place unknown · Read in context

Summary: We confess Christ by obeying him wholeheartedly.

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:132

ἐν τίνι δὲ αὐτὸν ὁμολογοῦμεν; ἐν τῷ ποιεῖν ἃ λέγει καὶ μὴ παρακούειν αὐτοῦ τῶν ἐντολῶν, καὶ μὴ μόνον χείλεσιν αὐτὸν τιμᾶν, ἀλλὰ ἐξ ὅλης καρδίας καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς διανοίας.

English · Claude translation

But how do we confess him? By doing what he says and not disobeying his commandments, and by honoring him not only with our lips but with our whole heart and our whole mind.

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Lake, LCL 24:132 · 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.
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2 Clem. 3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/3/4/).

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2 Clem. 3.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/3/4/).

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