Greek Fragments (Stählin 28, 33-58, 68)

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1. 33The Passover of the law is like an image honoured in the absence of its original but outshone when the truth is present.
2. 34Clement explains the spreading of leprosy (Lev 13:22) as a creeping, flowing advance.
3. 35A manuscript note reports that Clement read 1 John 4:3 as “every spirit that looses Jesus.”
4. 36Solomon's question whether God will dwell on earth is answered in Christ's flesh and in the church as a living temple.
5. 37Definitions of essence and nature, with God's essence described as eternal, bodiless, and the cause of all.
6. 38Four grades of being are distinguished, ending with the human being, whose mind is God's image.
7. 39God is spirit, a bodiless and uncircumscribed essence, whole in all things.
8. 40Definitions of the will and of free self-determination.
9. 41Maximus cites Clement's definitions of willing and wishing.
10. 42As God now creates through human generation, so he has ordained that bodies dissolve by a natural order.
11. 43The Brahmans, living in pure mountain air, reach the full span of human life.
12. 44A set of precepts for a newly baptized Christian on quiet conduct, speech, prayer, temperance, trust in God, and endurance in illness.
13. 45Serving a righteous person is a privilege for the one who serves.
14. 46In the incorruptible kingdom there is no desire, because every good is present.
15. 47God allows both wealth and poverty so that people may do good to one another.
16. 48Maximus reports that Pantaenus's school taught that God knows created things as his own wills.
17. 49Anastasius reports how Clement punctuated Gen 2:22.
18. 50Jerome reports that Origen, Clement, and Eusebius cited Jewish informants on Scripture.
19. 51Cyril reports Clement as saying that Josephus translated Sanchuniathon's Phoenician history into Greek.
20. 52A scholiast on Dionysius criticizes Clement's use of the term “paradigms.”
21. 53Alms should be given with discernment to the devout, as a farmer sows good soil.
22. 54The mustard tree is the church spread over the earth, and the birds in it are angels and souls.
23. 55Christians should be as shrewd in doing good as the serpent is in doing evil.
24. 56Christ commands flight in persecution to spare the persecutors guilt, so one who refuses to flee is at fault.
25. 57The Spirit appeared as a dove to show the simplicity and gentleness of his new manifestation.
26. 58The iota and the stroke of Matt 5:18 are read as God's straight goodness toward the upright and his crooked dealings with the crooked.
27. 68As each art is learned from its own teachings, one becomes a Christian only through the teachings of Christ.