Fragments

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1. 5On Job 1:21: Job departs naked not of property but of sin; the newborn's wailing and swaddling foreshadow death, man alone is born naked so that need may teach him wisdom and the arts, and Job, stripped of everything, gave thanks.
2. 6Freedom from disturbance is the most precious thing, and Job, who bore scorn and wrong with patience, is its model.
3. 7Three fragments: alms should be given with discernment to the worthy; the gospel word is like a mustard seed whose growth, the Church, shelters angels and souls; and Christ, born of the Virgin, is like a pearl, light shining through a body.
4. 9A composite of fragments of Clement's Hypotyposes: brief notes on 1 Cor 11:10, 2 Cor 5:16, 2 Cor 6:12, and Gal 5:24; Christ's baptism of Peter; the choice of James the Just as bishop of Jerusalem; the origin of Mark's Gospel; secret knowledge passed from James, John, and Peter to the apostles and the seventy; the martyrdom of James with his accuser; why Paul did not name himself in Hebrews; and John's “spiritual” Gospel.
5. 10Definitions ascribed to Clement: God as eternal, incorporeal divine substance and cause of all; substance; will as natural appetite; and self-determination as the soul's free intellectual motion.
6. 11Sayings ascribed to Clement: souls longing for God rise to his bosom at death; all souls, even of the ungodly, are immortal and the wicked suffer endless punishment; do not listen to slander; and the believer is justified not by mere abstention but by purity of thought.
7. 12Sayings ascribed to Clement on prompt repentance, on the instability of a soul that alternates between mourning and pleasure, on flattery and true praise, on moderation, on reproof and knowledge, and on doing good rather than merely avoiding evil.
8. 14The end of a saying from Clement's treatise on marriage, against giving a girl in marriage before she is ripe.
9. 15Sayings ascribed to Clement on flattery, moderation in using necessities, eating little and remembering death, and the rule that Christians must not correct sin by force, since only freely chosen goodness is true goodness.
10. 16Fragments ascribed to Clement from various sources: on the date of the Last Supper and the Passion (from On the Passover), on the dove at Jesus' baptism and the iota of the law, and on man as God's image.
11. 17Further fragments ascribed to Clement: on generation and death, the definition of spirit, the true temple of Christ's body, definitions from On Providence, short scattered sayings, and notes on 2 Cor 6:11–13 and on Paul's silence about his name in Hebrews.