2 Clement 6.4

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

Summary: This age urges vice; the coming age renounces it.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:136

οὗτος λέγει μοιχείαν καὶ φθορὰν καὶ φιλαργυρίαν καὶ ἀπάτην, ἐκεῖνος δὲ τούτοις ἀποτάσσεται.

This one speaks of adultery and corruption and love of money and deceit, but that one renounces these things.

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.
Topics: Ethics

2 Clem. 6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/6/4/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 6.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/6/4/).