{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg1271.tlg002.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1271.tlg002.local001","title":"Epistula II ad Corinthios","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Clement of Rome","authorityName":"CLEMENS ROMANUS Theol. et","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1271-clemens-romanus-theol-et/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg1271-clemens-romanus-theol-et/","editors":["Kirsopp Lake"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"The Apostolic Fathers","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann","place":"London","date":"1912","volume":"1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":[],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.232411/page/n133/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Clement Of Rome. Epistula II ad Corinthios. ed. Kirsopp Lake. The Apostolic Fathers, London, William Heinemann, 1912. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg1271.tlg002.local001","excerpt":"Ἀδελφοί, οὕτως δεῖ ἡμᾶς φρονεῖν περὶ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὡς περὶ θεοῦ, ὡς περὶ κριτοῦ ζώντων καὶ νεκρῶν: καὶ οὐ δεῖ ἡμᾶς μικρὰ φρονεῖν περὶ Acts 10, 12 τῆς σωτηρίας ἡμῶν. ἐν τῷ γὰρ φρονεῖν ἡμᾶς μικρὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ, μικρὰ καὶ ἐλπίζομεν λαβεῖν: καὶ οἱ ἀκούοντες ὡς περὶ μικρῶν ἁμαρτάνουσιν, καὶ ἡμεῖς *opi. a(marta/nousin, kai\\ h(mei=s AC. ἁμαρτάνομεν οὐκ εἰδότες, πόθεν ἐκλήθημεν καὶ ὑπὸ τίνος καὶ εἰς ὃν τόπον, καὶ ὅσα ὑπέμεινεν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς παθεῖν ἕνεκα ἡμῶν. τίνα οὖν ἡμεῖς αὐτῷ δώσομεν ἀντιμισθίαν, ἢ τίνα καρπὸν ἄξιον οὖ ἡμῖν αὐτὸς ἔδωκεν; πόσα δὲ αὐτῷ ὀφείλομεν ὅσια; τὸ φῶς γὰρ ἡμῖν ἐχαρίσατο, ὡς πατὴρ υἱοὺς ἡμᾶς προσηγόρευσεν, ἀπολλυμένους ἡμᾶς ἔσωσεν. ποῖον οὖν αἶνον αὐτῷ δώσομεν ἡ μισθὸν ἀντιμισθίας ὦν ἐλάβομεν; πηροὶ ὄντες τῇ διανοίᾳ, προσκυνοῦντες λίθους καὶ ξύλα καὶ χρυσὸν καὶ ἄργυρον καὶ χαλκόν, ἔργα ἀνθρώπων: καὶ ὁ βίος ἡμῶν ὅλος ἄλλο οὐδὲν ἦν εἰ μὴ θάνατος. ἀμαύρωσιν οὖν περικείμενοι…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/#tlg1271-tlg002-local001-20"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg1271.tlg002.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg1271/tlg002/local001.json.gz"}}