The Instructor 1.5.23 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 1:103–104

βασιλείῳ τελειουμένῃ κεφαλῇ. καὶ ποῦ ἄρα ἦν ἡ θυρίς, διʼ ἧς ὁ κύριος ἐδείκνυτο; ἡ σάρξ, διʼ ἧς πεφανέρωται. αὖθίς ἐστιν ὁ Ἰσαὰκ (καὶ γὰρ ἔστιν ἑτέρως ἐκλαβεῖν) τύπος [ὅς ἐστι] τοῦ κυρίου, παῖς μὲν ὡς υἱός (καὶ γὰρ υἱὸς ἦν Ἀβραὰμ ὡς ὁ Χριστὸς τοῦ θεοῦ) ἱερεῖον δὲ ὡς ὁ κύριος. ἀλλʼ οὐ κεκάρπωται ὡς ὁ κύριος· μόνον ἐβάστασε τὰ ξύλα τῆς ἱερουργίας ὁ Ἰσαάκ, ὡς ὁ κύριος τὸ ξύλον. ἐγέλα δὲ μυστικῶς, ἐμπλῆσαι ἡμᾶς προφητεύων χαρᾶς τὸν κύριον τοὺς αἵματι κυρίου ἐκ φθορᾶς λελυτρωμένους. οὐκ ἔπαθεν δέ, οὐ μόνον εἰκότως ἄρα [ὁ Ἰσαὰκ] τὰ πρωτεῖα τοῦ πάθους παραχωρῶν τῷ λόγῳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ κυρίου τὴν θειότητα αἰνίττεται μὴ σφαγείς· ἀνέστη γὰρ μετὰ τὴν κηδείαν ὁ Ἰησοῦς * * μὴ παθών, καθάπερ

English · Claude translation

the church being perfected by her royal head. And where, then, was the window through which the Lord was shown? The flesh, through which he was made manifest. Again, Isaac (for it can be taken in another way too) is a type of the Lord: a child as son (for he was the son of Abraham, as Christ is the Son of God), and a sacrificial victim like the Lord. But he was not offered up as the Lord was; Isaac only carried the wood of the sacrifice, as the Lord carried the wood of the cross. He laughed mystically, prophesying that the Lord would fill us with joy, us who have been redeemed from corruption by the Lord's blood. But he did not suffer; not only, fittingly, yielding the first place in suffering to the Word, but also, by not being slain, hinting at the divinity of the Lord. For Jesus rose after his burial … without suffering, just as

About this passage

Source

Stählin 1:103–104 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 1, Protrepticus und Paedagogus, GCS 12 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1905) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 1: Protrepticus und Paedagogus (GCS 12, 1905), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Stählin, GCS 12. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1905); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

Gen 22:6 · allusion, high confidence
John 19:17 · allusion, medium confidence
1 Pet 1:18 · echo, medium confidence
1 Pet 1:19 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The asterisks mark a gap in the manuscript; “without suffering” probably refers to Christ's divinity, which did not suffer. The bracketed words are marked by the editor as spurious (to be deleted). The allusion is Gen 22:6.
The sentence continues in the next section.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (the digital text's punctuation splits the sentence in the wrong place): ὡς ὁ κύριος, μόνον. ἐβάστασε → ὡς ὁ κύριος· μόνον ἐβάστασε.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.5.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/5/23/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.5.23 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/5/23/).