Miscellanies 1.21.123 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:77

μετὰ δὲ Ἀγγαῖον καὶ Ζαχαρίαν Νεεμίας ὁ ἀρχιοινοχόος Ἀρταξέρξου, υἱὸς δὲ Ἀχηλὶ τοῦ Ἰσραηλίτου, οἰκοδομεῖ τὴν πόλιν Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ τὸν νεὼν ἐπισκευάζει. ἐν τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ ταύτῃ γίνεται Ἐσθὴρ καὶ Μαρδοχαῖος, οὗ φέρεται βιβλίον ὡς καὶ τὸ τῶν Μακκαβαϊκῶν. κατὰ τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν ταύτην τῇ εἰκόνι λατρεῦσαι μὴ θελήσαντες Μισαὴλ Ἀνανίας τε καὶ Ἀζαρίας εἰς κάμινον ἐμβληθέντες πυρὸς διʼ ἐπιφανείας ἀγγέλου σῴζονται. τότε διὰ δράκοντα Δανιὴλ εἰς λάκκον λεόντων βληθεὶς ὑπὸ Ἀμβακοὺμ προνοίᾳ θεοῦ τραφεὶς ἑβδομαῖος ἀνασῴζεται. ἐνταῦθα καὶ τὸ σημεῖον ἐγένετο Ἰωνᾶ, καὶ Τωβίας διὰ Ῥαφαὴλ τοῦ ἀγγέλου Σάρραν ἄγεται γυναῖκα, τοῦ δαίμονος αὐτῆς ἑπτὰ τοὺς πρώτους μνηστῆρας ἀνελόντος, καὶ μετὰ τὸν γάμον Τωβίου ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ Τωβὶτ ἀναβλέπει.

English · Claude translation

After Haggai and Zechariah, Nehemiah, the chief cupbearer of Artaxerxes, son of Achel (Hachaliah) the Israelite, built the city of Jerusalem and restored the temple. In this captivity lived Esther and Mordecai, whose book is current, as is that of the Maccabees. In this captivity Mishael, Hananiah, and Azariah, refusing to worship the image, were thrown into the furnace of fire and were saved by the appearance of an angel. Then Daniel, cast into the lions' den because of the dragon, was fed by Habakkuk by God's providence and was rescued on the seventh day. Here too the sign of Jonah took place; and Tobias, through the angel Raphael, took Sarah as wife, the demon having killed her first seven suitors; and after the marriage of Tobias his father Tobit recovered his sight.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:77 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 2, Stromata Buch I–VI, GCS 15 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1906); vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 2–3 (GCS 15, 17, 1906–1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Stählin, GCS 15, 17. 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), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1906–1909); 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) · Book 3 is left partly untranslated (in Latin) there.

Scripture

Neh 1:1 · allusion, high confidence
Neh 1:11 · allusion, high confidence
Esth 2:7 · allusion, medium confidence
Dan 3:20 · allusion, high confidence
Dan 3:28 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 12:39 · echo, medium confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Bel 31–39 (Bel and the Dragon) · allusion, high confidence
Tob 3:8; 11.13 (Tobit) · allusion, high confidence
1 Macc (1 Maccabees) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are Neh 1:1, 11; 2:1; Esth; Dan 3; Bel 31–39 (Habakkuk feeds Daniel); and Tobit 3:8; 11:13. Clement places Jonah here, though he dates him earlier in 1.21.118.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misspelling in the digital text): διʼ ἐκιφανείας ἀγγέλου → διʼ ἐπιφανείας ἀγγέλου.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.123 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/123/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.123 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/123/).