The Instructor 1.6.31 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 1:108

ἐσμεν.« οὐκ ἀκούετε ὅτι ὑπʼ ἐκεῖνον τὸν νόμον οὐκέτι ἐσμέν, ὃς ἦν μετὰ φόβου, ὑπὸ δὲ τὸν λόγον τῆς προαιρέσεως τὸν παιδαγωγόν; εἶτα μέντοι ἐπήγαγεν τὴν ἁπάσης ἐκτὸς προσωποληψίας φωνήν· »πάντες γὰρ υἱοί ἐστε διὰ πίστεως θεοῦ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ· ὅσοι γὰρ εἰς Χριστὸν ἐβαπτίσθητε, χριστὸν ἐνεδύσασθε. οὐκ ἔνι Ἰουδαῖος οὔτε Ἕλλην, οὐκ ἔνι δοῦλος οὔτε ἐλεύθερος, οὐκ ἔνι ἄρσεν καὶ θῆλυ· πάντες γὰρ ὑμεῖς εἷς ἐστε ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.« οὐκ ἄρα οἳ μὲν γνωστικοί, οἳ δὲ ψυχικοὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ λόγῳ, ἀλλʼ οἱ πάντες ἀποθέμενοι τὰς σαρκικὰς ἐπιθυμίας ἴσοι καὶ πνευματικοὶ παρὰ τῷ κυρίῳ. καὶ ἀλλαχόθι πάλιν γράφει· »καὶ γὰρ ἐν ἑνὶ πνεύματι ἡμεῖς πάντες εἰς ἓν σῶμα ἐβαπτίσθημεν, εἴτε Ἰουδαῖοι εἴτε Ἕλληνες, εἴτε δοῦλοι εἴτε ἐλεύθεροι· καὶ πάντες ἓν πόμα ἐποτίσθημεν.«

English · Claude translation

Do you not hear that we are no longer under that law, which was with fear, but under the Word, the Instructor of free choice? Then he added the saying that is free of all partiality: “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus; for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” So in the Word himself there are not some who are “gnostics” and others “psychics,” but all who have put away the desires of the flesh are equal and spiritual before the Lord. And elsewhere again he writes: “For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free; and we were all made to drink of one drink.”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 1:108 · 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)

Scripture

Gal 3:26 · quotation, high confidence
Gal 3:27 · quotation, high confidence
Gal 3:28 · quotation, high confidence
1 Cor 2:14 · echo, medium confidence
1 Cor 12:13 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Baptism, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

Clement rejects the Valentinian division of Christians into “pneumatics” or “gnostics” (the spiritual elite) and “psychics” (ordinary believers). The quotations are Gal 3:26–28 and 1 Cor 12:13.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.6.31 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/6/31/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.6.31 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/6/31/).