Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Eric Sowell, who blogs at Archaic Christianity, today released a new collation of 2Cl 1-6 (that's the blog post, the collation itself is here). There are only two extant sources for the Greek (and one for the Syriac); Eric has done a comprehensive collation of both Greek sources (Alexandrinus and Hierosolymitanus) against Lake's Apostolic Fathers edition (likely because that's in the Public Domain). I'm not sure what exact sources he's using for Alexandrinus and Hierosolymitanus, though. I know there are JPGs of a transcription of Alexandrinus at CSNTM.org; and I know that Lightfoot's 2-volume edition of Clement has lithographs of Clement in Hierosolymitanus (in minuscule, which Eric has some skill at). I don't know where else he might be getting the sources.

Anyway, this is awesome stuff! If you're into the Apostolic Fathers, you should make sure to bookmark this resource!

Second Clement is one of my favorite items in the Apostolic Fathers corpus; I even translated the first chapter awhile back. Here's that translation again:

1 Brethren, it is necessary for us to think in this way concerning Jesus Christ: [to think] as concerning God, [to think] as concerning the judge of the living and the dead. It is not proper for us to think little concerning our salvation. 2 For when we think little concerning him, we also hope to receive little. The ones listening as though these were little things, they sin, and we sin — not knowing from where and on behalf of whom and into which place we have been called; nor how great the suffering Jesus Christ endured for us. 3 Therefore what can we give to him as return? What fruit [can we give him] worthy of that which he has given to us? And how much holiness do we owe him? 4 For he gave us the light; he greeted us as a Father does his sons; he saved us when we were being destroyed. 5 Therefore what praise shall we give to him? What wages can we give him as return? 6 We were maimed in our understanding, worshiping stone and wood and gold and silver and copper, the works of men. Our entire life was nothing if not death. And so we were blanketed in darkness and had eyes full of foggy mist. But we received sight, by his will we have cast off the cloud that enveloped us. 7 For he had mercy on us and saved us in his compassion, having seen in us the great error and destruction. We had not an ounce of hope of becoming saved, if not through him. 8 For he called us when we did not exist and he willed us out of non-being to be. (2Cl 1.1-8)

Post Author: rico
Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:15:42 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) 

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Monday, May 05, 2008 12:23:45 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
The sources are as you guessed. The source for Alexandrinus is CSNTM, though I'm not sure why you're calling that a transcription (it's an incredibly authentic-looking transcription, if it is!). As for Hierosolymitanus, I did use Lightfoot's volume. Hopefully you'll be seeing images for those up on the web soon. When they make it up, I'll be sure to announce it.
And thanks for the link!
Monday, May 05, 2008 4:32:58 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)
On Alexandrinus -- I haven't looked at what CSNTM has up; I guess I thought it was a transcription, not photos of the MS. For some reason I had it stuck in my head that the British Library (Lake?) had published a transcription instead of photos, but I must've remembered wrong.
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