The Instructor 1.6.24

Summary: Clement turns to answer those who criticize calling Christians “children.”

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Greek text · Stählin 1:104

Ἔξεστι δὲ ἡμῖν ἐκ περιουσίας πρὸς τοὺς φιλεγκλήμονας ἐπαποδύσασθαι·

We can also, and abundantly, strip for the contest against those who love to find fault.

Source: Stählin 1:104 · 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; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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)

This one sentence opens chapter 6; the section number 24 continues from the end of chapter 5.

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.6.24 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/6/24/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.6.24 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/6/24/).