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2 Clement 6.2

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

Summary: What profit is the whole world if the soul is lost?

Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:136

τί γὰρ τὸ ὄφελος, ἐάν τις τὸν κόσμον ὅλον κερδήσῃ, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν ζημιωθῇ;

English · Claude translation

“For what is the profit if someone gains the whole world but forfeits his soul?”

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Source
Lake, LCL 24:136 · 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. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/6/2/).

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2 Clem. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/6/2/).

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