Early Christian writings · 20 chapters
2 Clement
An early Christian exhortation to repentance, faithful conduct and hope in resurrection. Despite its traditional title, its form is a sermon rather than a letter.
Place in the traditions
Lightfoot presents this as an ancient homily by an unknown author. Its attribution to Clement is not treated as established. Neither 1 nor 2 Clement is the Ethiopic Book of Clement.
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J. B. Lightfoot's historic English translation, transcribed by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library from a 1956 reprint and identified there as public domain. Source chapter divisions are retained. The reader numbers successive source paragraphs within each chapter; these locators may differ from section numbers in other editions. Opening greetings appear separately and do not change chapter numbering. Editorial footnotes are omitted; the source remains available for comparison.
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