Clement of Rome, The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, Kirsopp Lake (Translator), 20

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[1] But neither let it grieve your mind that we see¹ the unrighteous enjoying wealth, and the servants of God oppressed.

[2] Let us then have faith, brothers and sisters: we are contending in the contest of the living God, and we are being trained by the life which now is, that we may gain the crown in that which is to come.

[3] None of the righteous has attained a reward quickly, but waits for it;

[4] for if God should pay the recompense of the righteous speedily, we should immediately be training ourselves in commerce and not in godliness; for we should seem to be righteous when we were pursuing not piety but gain. For this reason divine judgment punishes² a spirit which is not righteous and loads it with chains.

[5] To the only invisible God, the father of truth.³ who sent forth to us the Saviour and prince of immortality, through whom he also made manifest to to us truth and the life of heaven, to him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians.

The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians. Clement of Rome. Kirsopp Lake (Translator). London. 1912.

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Epistula II ad Corinthios First1KGreek (Clement of Rome. The Apostolic Fathers, Volume 1. Lake, Kirsopp, editor. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912.) — 20 focus

[1] Ἀλλὰ μηδὲ ἐκεῖνο τὴν διάνοιαν ὑμῶν ταρασσέτω, ὅτι βλέπομεν τοὺς ἀδίκους πλουτοῦντας καὶ στενοχωρουμένους τοὺς τοῦ θεοῦ δούλους.

[2] πιστεύωμεν οὖν, ἀδελφοὶ καὶ ἀδελφαί: θεοῦ ζῶντος πεῖραν ἀθλοῦμεν καὶ γυμναζόμεθα τῷ νῦν βίῳ, ἵνα τῷ μέλλοντι στεφανωθῶμεν.

[3] οὐδεὶς τῶν δικαίων ταχὺν καρπὸν ἔλαβεν, ἀλλ̓ ἐκδέχεται αὐτόν.

[4] εἰ γὰρ τὸν μισθὸν τῶν δικαίων ὁ θεὸς συντόμως ἀπεδίδου, εὐθέως ἐμπορίαν ἠσκοῦμεν καὶ οὐ θεοσέβειαν: ἐδοκοῦμεν γὰρ εἶναι δίκαιοι, οὐ τὸ εὐσεβές, ἀλλὰ τὸ κερδαλέον διώκοντες. καὶ διὰ τοῦτο θεία κρίσις ἔβλαψεν πνεῦμα μὴ ὃν δίκαιον, καὶ ἐβάρυνεν δεσμοῖς. ¹

[5] Τῷ μόνῳ θεῷ ἀοράτῳ, πατρὶ τῆς ἀληθείας, τῷ ἐξαποστείλαντι ἡμῖν τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ ἀρχηγὸν τῆς ἀφθαρσίας, δἰ οὗ καὶ ἐφανέρωσεν ἡμῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ τὴν ἐπουράνιον ζωήν, αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. ἀμήν. Κλήμεντος πρὸς Κορινθίους ἐπιστολὴ β.

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The Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians

1. The prosperity of the righteous

2. This translation takes the aorist as gnomic, and regards spirit as meaning a human spirit. But Harnack prefers to take the aorist as historical and refers the passage to the fall of Satan.

3. Doxology

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