2 Clement 8.3

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

Summary: After death there is no more repentance.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 24:140

μετὰ γὰρ τὸ ἐξελθεῖν ἡμᾶς ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου οὐκέτι δυνάμεθα ἐκεῖ ἐξομολογήσασθαι ἢ μετανοεῖν ἔτι.

For after we have departed from the world we can no longer confess or repent there.

Source: Lake, LCL 24:140 · 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: Eschatology

Digital text corrected (digitization slip against Lake's printed text (wrong ending)): τοῦ κόσμον → τοῦ κόσμου.

2 Clem. 8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/8/3/).

Plain text

2 Clem. 8.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/2-clement/8/3/).