CODEX
SINAITICUS: The New Testament translated from the Sinaitic
Manuscript
Discovered by Constantine Tischendorf at
Copyright ©2004 Jackson H.
Snyder II
CLEMENT TO
THE CORINTHIANS 2
translated by Charles H. Hoole, 1885
NOTE: CLEMENT IS NOT
A PART OF THE SINAITICUS, BUT IS SITUATED IN OTHER EARLY TESTAMENTS AFTER
REVELATION
CHAPTER
1
1:1 Brethren, we ought so to think of our
Lord Jesus
Christ
as of God, as of the judge of quick and dead,
and we ought not to think meanly concerning
our
salvation;
1:2 for if we think meanly concerning him,
we expect
also that we shall receive mean things;
and if we
listen to it as though it were a small
thing, we err,
not knowing from whence we are called, nor by
whom,
nor unto what place, nor what great things
Jesus
Christ
hath endured to suffer on our behalf.
1:3 What recompense, therefore, shall we
give unto
him, or what fruit worthy of that which he
hath given
unto us? How many things that help unto
holiness hath
he given unto us?
1:4 For he hath given us the light, he
hath called
us sons as though he were our father, he hath
saved us
when we were ready to perish.
1:5 What praise, therefore, shall we give
unto him,
or what recompense of reward for the things
that we
have received?
1:6 for we were maimed in our
understanding,
worshipping stocks and stones, and
gold and silver and
iron, the work of men, and our whole
life was nothing
but death. We, therefore, who were surrounded with
darkness, and who had our sight filled with
such
gloom, have recovered our sight, having,
according to
his will, laid aside the cloud that was around
us.
1:7 For he hath had compassion upon us,
and, pitying
us, hath saved us, having beheld in us much
wandering
and destruction, when we had no hope of
salvation
except that which is from him.
1:8 For he hath called us when as yet we
were not,
and hath willed us to be when we were nothing.
CHAPTER
2
2:1 |Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break
forth and shout, thou that travailest not, for the
desolate hath many more children than she
that hath an
husband. In that he said, Rejoice, thou
barren that
bearest
not, he hath spoken of us, for our church was
barren before that children were given
unto her.
2:2 But in that he said, Shout, thou that travailest
not, he meaneth that
we should offer our prayers to
God
with simplicity, that we faint not like women in
travail.
2:3 But in that he said, The children of
the
desolate are many more than they of her
that hath an
husband, he meaneth
that our people seemed to be
deserted of God, and now, after that we
have believed,
we have become more in number than they which
seemed
to have God.
2:4 And another scripture saith, I came not to call
the righteous but sinners.
2:5 He meaneth
this, that it behoveth to save them
that are perishing.
2:6 For this is great and wonderful, not
to
establish the things that are standing, but
the things
that are falling;
2:7 thus Christ willed to save the things
that were
perishing, and he saved many, having come
and called
us who were already perishing.
CHAPTER
3
3:1 |Since, therefore, he hath showed such
compassion
unto us; first, that he hath caused
that we who live
should not sacrifice unto gods that are
dead, neither
worship them, but know through him the
Father of
truth. What is this knowledge of him
except the not
denying him through whom we know him?
3:2 For he himself saith,
Whosoever hath confessed
me before men, him will I confess before my
Father.
3:3 This, therefore, is our reward if we
confess him
through whom we have been saved.
3:4 But whereby shall we confess him? Even
by doing
what he commandeth,
and not disobeying his
commandments, and honouring him not only with our lips
but with our whole heart and whole
understanding.
3:5 For he saith
in Esaias, This people honoureth
me
with their lips, but their heart is far
from me.
CHAPTER
4
4:1 |Let us not, therefore, only call him
Lord, for
that will not save us.
4:2 For he saith,
It is not every one that sayeth
unto me, Lord, Lord! that
shall be saved, but he that
doeth righteousness.
4:3 Wherefore, brethren, let us confess
him in our
deeds, by loving one another, by not
committing
adultery, and not speaking ill of each
other, neither
being envious, but by being continent,
compassionate,
kind. We ought also to sympathize one
with another,
and to abstain from covetousness; it is by
these works
that we acknowledge him, and not by the
contrary;
4:4 and we ought not to fear men but
rather God.
4:5 Wherefore, if we do these things, the
Lord hath
said, Though ye have been gathered
together with me in
my bosom and do not my commandments I will
cast you
from me, and I will say unto you,
Depart from me; I
know you not whence ye are, ye workers
of iniquity.
CHAPTER
5
5:1 |Wherefore, brethren, having left our
sojourning
in this world, let us do the will of him who
called
us, and let us not fear to depart from this
world.
5:2 For the Lord saith,
Ye shall be as lambs in the
midst of wolves.
5:3 But Peter answered and saith unto him, What,
then, if the wolves rend the sheep?
5:4 Jesus saith
unto Peter, Let not the lambs after
that they are dead fear the wolves; and
do not ye fear
them that kill you but can do nothing
more unto you,
but fear him who after ye are dead hath
authority over
body and soul, even to cast them into
hell fire.
5:5 And ye know, brethren, that the
sojourning of
our flesh in this world is but short and for a
little
while, but the promise of Christ is
great and
wonderful, even the rest of the kingdom
which is to
come, and of eternal life.
5:6 What, therefore, shall we do that we may
attain
unto them, except to lead a holy and
just
conversation, and to deem the
things of this world to
be alien unto us, and not to desire them?
5:7 for while we desire to obtain these
things we
fall from the right way.
CHAPTER
6
6:1 |For the Lord saith,
No servant can serve two
masters. If, therefore, we wish to serve
both God and
Mammon,
it is inexpedient for us;
6:2 for what advantage is it if a man gain
the whole
world, but lose his soul?
6:3 Now this life and the life to come are
two
enemies.
6:4 This life preacheth
adultery, corruption,
covetousness, and deceit; but the
life that is to come
renounceth
these things.
6:5 We cannot, therefore, be friends to
both; it
behoveth
us then to renounce the one and to use the
other.
6:6 Let us consider, therefore, that it is
better to
hate the things that are here, as being
small and
short-lived and corruptible, but
to love the things
that are there, as being good and
incorruptible.
6:7 If, therefore, we do the will of
Christ, we
shall find rest; but if not, nothing
will deliver us
from eternal punishment, if we obey not
his
commandments.
6:8 For the scripture saith
in Ezekiel, If Noah, and
Job,
and Daniel should rise up, they shall not deliver
their children in the captivity.
6:9 If, therefore, such righteous men as
these
cannot by their righteousness deliver
their children,
with what confidence shall we, if we
keep not our
baptism pure and undefiled, come unto the
kingdom of
God? or who
shall be our advocate unless we be found
having the works that are holy and just?
CHAPTER
7
7:1 |Wherefore, my brethren, let us
strive, knowing
that the contest is at hand. We know,
too, that many
put in for corruptible contests, but all are
not
crowned, but they only who have laboured much and
fought a good fight.
7:2 Let us, therefore, contend that we may
all be
crowned.
7:3 Let us run in the straight course, in
the
incorruptible contest; and let us be
many that put
into it, and let us so contend that we
may also be
crowned. And if we cannot all be crowned,
let us at
least come near to the crown.
7:4 It behoveth
us to know that he who contendeth in
a corruptible contest, if he be found acting
unfairly
is flogged, and taken away, and cast out of
the
course.
7:5 What think ye? what
shall he suffer that acteth
unfairly in an incorruptible contest?
7:6 For of them who have not kept their
seal he
saith,
Their worm shall die not, and their fire shall
not be quenched, and they shall be for a
spectacle to
all flesh.
CHAPTER
8
8:1 |While, therefore, we are upon the
earth, let us
repent.
8:2 For we are as clay in the hands of the
workman.
In
like manner as the potter, if while he be making a
vessel, it turn amiss in his hands, or be
crushed, can
mould it again, but if he have once cast
it into the
fiery furnace can no longer amend it; so
let us, so
long as we are in this world repent
with all our
hearts of the wickedness that we have
committed in the
flesh, that we may be saved of the Lord
while as yet
we have time for repentance.
8:3 For after that we are departed out of
this
world, we are no longer able there to
confess or
repent.
8:4 Wherefore, brethren, if we have done
the will of
the Father, and preserved our flesh pure, and
kept the
commandments of the Lord, we shall
receive eternal
life.
8:5 For the Lord saith
in the Gospel, If ye have not
kept that which is little, who shall
give you that
which is great? for
I say unto you, he that is
faithful in that which is least is faithful
also in
much.
8:6 Doth he not, therefore, say this, Keep
your
flesh pure and your seal unspotted, that
ye may
inherit eternal life?
CHAPTER
9
9:1 |And let not any one of you say that
this our
flesh is not judged nor raised again.
9:2 Consider this: in what were ye saved,
in what
did ye recover your sight, if not in this
flesh?
9:3 We ought, therefore, to guard our
flesh as the
9:4 for in the same manner as ye were
called in the
flesh, in the flesh also shall ye come.
9:5 There is one Christ, our Lord who
saved us, who
being at the first spirit, was made
flesh, and thus
called us. So also shall we in this flesh
receive the
reward.
9:6 Let us, therefore, love one another,
that we may
all come to the
9:7 While we have opportunity to be
healed, let us
give ourselves up unto God who healeth, giving a
recompense unto him.
9:8 And of what kind? repentance
from a sincere
heart.
9:9 For he foreknoweth
all things, and knoweth the
things that are in our hearts.
9:10 Let us, therefore, give him praise,
not from
the mouth alone, but also from the heart, that
he may
receive us as sons.
9:11 For of a truth the Lord hath said, My
brethren
are they who do the will of my Father.
CHAPTER
10
10:1 |Wherefore, my brethren, let us do the
will of
the Father who hath called us, that we may
live; and
let us the rather pursue virtue, and abandon
vice
which leadeth
us into sins, and let us fly ungodliness
lest evil seize us; for if we are
zealous to do good
peace shall pursue us.
10:2 For this cause it is not possible that
a man
should find peace.
10:3 For they introduce the fear of men,
choosing
rather the present enjoyment that is here
than the
future promise.
10:4 For they are ignorant how great a
torment the
enjoyment of this world bringeth,
and what delight
hath the future promise.
10:5 And if they themselves alone did these
things
it were endurable; but now they continue to
instruct
in evil innocent souls, not knowing that they
will
have a twofold condemnation -- both
themselves and they
that hearken to them.
CHAPTER
11
11:1 |Let us, therefore, serve God with a
pure heart,
and we shall be righteous; but if we serve him
not,
because we believe not the promise of God,
we shall be
wretched.
11:2 For the prophetic word saith, Wretched are the
double-minded who doubt in their
heart, and say, We
have heard these things of old, even in
the time of
our fathers, but we have seen none of them,
though we
expect them from day to day.
11:3 Ye fools, compare yourselves unto a
tree; take
for an example the vine. In the first place it
sheddeth
its leaves, then there cometh a shoot, after
that the unripe grape, then the mature
cluster.
11:4 In like manner my people hath in time
past had
disorder and trouble, but afterward it
shall receive
the things that are good.
11:5 Wherefore, my brethren, let us not be
double-minded, but let us abide in
hope, that we may
obtain our reward.
11:6 Faithful is he that hath promised that
he will
give unto each the recompense of his
works.
11:7 If, therefore, we do righteousness
before God,
we shall enter into his kingdom, and receive
the
promises which ear hath not heard nor eye
seen,
neither have entered into the heart of
man.
CHAPTER
12
12:1 |Let us, therefore, in love and
righteousness
expect every hour the
not the day of the appearing of God.
12:2 For the Lord himself, when he was
asked by a
certain man when his kingdom should come,
replied,
When
two shall be one, and that which is without as
that which is within, and the male with
the female
neither male nor female.
12:3 Now two are one when we speak the
truth one to
another, and there is, without hypocrisy,
one soul in
two bodies.
12:4 And by that which is without being as
that
which is within, he meaneth
this: He calleth the soul
that which is within, and the body that
which is
without; in like manner, therefore, as thy
body is
visible, let thy soul be made manifest by
good deeds.
12:5 And by the male with the female
neither male
nor female, he meaneth
this: When a brother seeing a
sister doth not in any way regard her as
a female, nor
doth she regard him as a male;
12:6 when ye do these things, he saith, the kingdom
of my Father will come.
CHAPTER
13
13:1 |My brethren, let us therefore repent
forthwith;
let us be sober and followers of what is good,
for we
are burdened with much folly and wickedness.
Let us
wipe out from among us our former sins,
and repent
sincerely and be saved. And let us not be
pleasers of
men, nor let us wish to please one another
alone, but
let us also please them that are without by
our
righteous conduct, that the Divine name may
not be
blasphemed on our account.
13:2 For the Lord saith,
My name is continually
blasphemed among all the
Gentiles; and again,
Wherefore
is my name blasphemed, whereby is it
blasphemed? in
that ye do not the things that I will.
13:3 |For the Gentiles, when they hear from
our mouth
the oracles of God, admire them as beautiful
and
weighty; but afterwards perceiving our
deeds, that
they are not worthy of the words that
we say, they
turn thereafter to blasphemy, saying
that the matter
is but fable and deceit.
13:4 For when they hear from us that God saith,
There
is no thanks for you if ye love them that love
you, but there is thanks for you if ye love
your
enemies and them that hate you; when they
hear these
things, they wonder at the excess of the
goodness. But
when they see that we do not only not
love those that
hate us, but do not even love those
that love us, they
turn us to ridicule, and the Divine
name is
blasphemed.
CHAPTER
14
14:1 |Wherefore, my brethren, by doing the
will of
our Father, God, we shall be of the first, the
spiritual Church, which was founded before
the sun and
moon were made; but if we do not the
will of the Lord,
we shall be of the scripture that saith, My house hath
become a den of thieves. Let us therefore
choose to be
of the Church of life that we may be saved.
14:2 But I do not think that you are
ignorant that
the living Church is the body of Christ. For
the
scripture saith,
God made man, male and female. Now,
the male signifieth
Christ, the female the Church. Ye
know also that both the Bible and the
Apostles say
that the Church is not new, but was
from the
beginning; for it was of a spiritual kind,
as was also
our Jesus, but was made manifest in the last
days that
it might save us.
14:3 But the Church, though spiritual, was
manifested in the flesh of
Christ, showing to us that
if any one keep it in his flesh, and corrupt
it not,
he will receive it in the Holy Spirit; for
this flesh
is the counterpart of the Spirit; no one,
therefore,
who corrupteth the
copy will receive the original in
exchange. He therefore meaneth
this, my brethren: Keep
pure the flesh, that ye may partake of
the Spirit.
14:4 But if we say that the flesh is the
Church, and
the Spirit, Christ, he then who doeth injury
to the
flesh doeth injury to the Church. Such an one
therefore shall not partake of the Spirit,
which is
Christ.
14:5 Such life and immortality is this
flesh able to
partake of by the union of the Holy Spirit
with it. Nor
can any say or declare what the Lord hath
prepared for
his elect.
CHAPTER
15
15:1 |Now, I do not think that I have given
advice of
little importance concerning temperance,
which, if a
man practice, he will not repent of it, but
will save
both himself and me who advise him. For
it is no small
service to convert a wandering and
perishing soul to
salvation.
15:2 For this recompense are we able to
give in
return to God who created us, if he who speaketh and
heareth
both speak and hear with faith and love.
15:3 Let us therefore remain with
righteousness and
holiness in the things in which we have
believed, that
we may with boldness ask of God, who saith, While thou
art still speaking, I will say, Lo I am here.
15:4 For this saying is the token of a
great
promise. For the Lord saith
of himself that he is more
ready to give than him that asketh.
15:5 Since, therefore, we partake in so
much
goodness, let us not grudge ourselves the
attaining of
so many good things; for by so much as his
words bring
pleasure to those who do them, by so much
do they
bring condemnation to those who disobey
them.
CHAPTER
16
16:1 |Wherefore, brethren, since we have
received no
small opportunity for repentance, let
us, while we
have time, turn unto the God who hath
called us, while
we still have one who will receive us.
16:2 For if we bid farewell to the luxuries
of this
world, and conquer our soul so that we
do not fulfil
evil lusts, we shall partake of the
mercy of Jesus.
16:3 But know that the day of judgment is
already
coming as a burning furnace, and certain
of the
heavens shall be melted, and the whole
earth shall be
as lead melting on the fire; and then shall
both the
secret and open deeds of men be made
manifest.
16:4 Good, therefore, is almsgiving, as
showing
repentance from sin; better is
fasting than prayer,
and almsgiving than both; for love covereth a
multitude of sins, and prayer that goeth forth from a
good conscience saveth
from death. Happy is every one
who is found full of these things, for
almsgiving
becometh
a lightening of sin.
CHAPTER
17
17:1 |Let us therefore repent with our
whole heart
lest any of us perish by the way. For
if we have
received commandments and make this our
business -- to
tear men away from idols and instruct
them -- how much
more ought a soul not to perish that
hath already come
to a knowledge of God?
17:2 Let us therefore endeavour
to elevate with
regard to what is good them that are
weak, to the end
that we may all be saved; and let us
convert one
another and reprove one another.
17:3 And let us not seem to attend and believe
now
only, while we are being admonished by
the presbyters,
but also when we have departed to our homes,
let us
remember the commandments of the Lord; and
let us not,
on the other hand, be drawn aside by the
lusts of the
world, but let us endeavour,
by coming more
frequently, to make progress in
the commandments of
the Lord, to the end that we all being of one
mind may
be gathered together unto life.
17:4 For the Lord hath said, I come to
gather
together all the nations, tribes, and
tongues. And
this he saith
of the day of his appearing, when he
shall come and recompense each of us
according to his
works.
17:5 And the unbelieving shall behold his
glory and
strength, and shall be astonished when they
see the
kingdom of the world in the hands of
Jesus, and shall
say, Woe unto us, for thou wast
and we knew it not,
and did not believe, nor did we obey the
presbyters
who preached to us concerning our salvation.
And their
worm shall not die, nor their fire be
quenched, and
they shall be for a spectacle to all
flesh.
17:6 He speaketh
of that day of judgment when they
shall see punished those among us who
have lived
ungodly and set at nought
the commandments of Jesus
Christ.
17:7 But the just, who have done well, and
have
abided the tests, and have hated the
luxuries of the
soul, when they behold those who have
missed the way
and have denied Jesus either by words or
deeds, how
they are punished with dreadful
tortures in
unquenchable fire, shall give glory
to their God,
saying, that there shall be a hope for
him who hath
served God with his whole heart.
CHAPTER
18
18:1 |Let us, therefore, be of those who
give thanks,
of those who have served God, and not of the
ungodly
who are judged.
18:2 For I myself, being in all respects a
sinner,
and not having yet escaped temptation, but
being still
in the midst of the snares of the devil, yet endeavour
to follow after righteousness, that I may be
able, at
any rate, to be near it, fearing the judgment
to come.
CHAPTER
19
19:1 |Wherefore, my brethren and sisters,
after the
reading of the words of the God of truth,
I read also
unto you an exhortation, to the end
that ye should
attend to what has been written, that ye
may both save
yourselves and him who preacheth among you; for I ask
of you, as my reward, that ye should repent
with your
whole heart, gaining for yourselves
salvation and
life. For by so doing we shall offer an
aim to all the
young, who are willing to labour cheerfully for the
worship and goodness of God.
19:2 And let not those of us who are
unlearned be
vexed or offended when one exhorteth us and turneth us
from sin to righteousness. For we at
times when doing
what is wrong, know it not, from the
doubt and
unbelief that is in our hearts, and are
blinded in our
understanding by vain lusts.
19:3 Let us, therefore, practise
righteousness, that
we may be saved at the last. Blessed are they
who obey
these commands, for if for a short time
they suffer in
the world that now is, they shall gather
hereafter the
immortal fruit of the resurrection.
19:4 Let not, therefore, the pious man be
vexed if
he be afflicted in the times that now are, a
blessed
time awaiteth
him. He shall live above again with the
fathers, and shall rejoice without sorrow
for ever.
CHAPTER
20
20:1 |And let not even that trouble your
mind, that
we see the unjust prosperous and the servants
of God
in misery.
20:2 Let us have faith, my brethren and
sisters. We
are making trial of the living God, and
contending in
the present life that we may be crowned in the
life to
come.
20:3 For none of the just receiveth a speedy reward,
but waiteth for it.
20:4 For if God gave speedily the reward of
the
righteous, we should forthwith practise gain and not
godliness; for we should seem to be
righteous, not on
account of what is pious, but on account
of what is
profitable. And on this account
hath the Divine
judgment overtaken a spirit that is not
righteous, and
hath burdened it with chains.
20:5 Now to the only God, the invisible,
the father
of truth, who hath sent unto us the Saviour and leader
of immortality, through whom he hath made
known unto
us the truth and the heavenly life, to him be
the
glory, world without end. Amen.