Miscellanies 1.24.161 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:101

τὸ γοῦν στρατήγημα τοῦ Μωυσέως διδάσκει πρὸ τῶν κινδύνων δεῖν τὰ χρήσιμα συνιδεῖν καὶ οὕτως ἐπιβαλεῖν. ἀμέλει γέγονεν ὅπερ καὶ ὑπώπτευσεν· ἐπεδίωξαν γὰρ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι ἐφʼ ἵππων καὶ ὀχημάτων, ἀλλʼ ἀπώλοντο θᾶττον ῥαγείσης τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ σὺν ἵπποις καὶ ἅρμασιν αὐτοὺς κατακλυσάσης, ὡς μηδὲ λείψανον αὐτῶν ἀπολειφθῆναι. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα στῦλος πυρὸς ἑπόμενος (ὡδήγει γὰρ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν) ἦγε νύκτωρ τοὺς Ἑβραίους διʼ ἀβάτου, ἐν πόνοις καὶ ὁδοιπορίαις εἴς τε ἀνδρίαν εἴς τε καρτερίαν γυμνάζων καὶ συμβιβάζων αὐτούς, ἵνα καὶ χρηστὰ τὰ τῆς χώρας μετὰ τὴν πεῖραν τῶν δοκούντων δεινῶν φανῇ, εἰς ἣν ἐξ ἀνοδίας παρέπεμπεν αὐτούς.

English · Claude translation

The strategy of Moses, at any rate, teaches that before dangers one must see what is useful and so act. Indeed what he suspected happened: the Egyptians pursued with horses and chariots, but perished quickly when the sea broke and flooded them with their horses and chariots, so that not even a remnant of them was left. After this a pillar of fire following (for it guided them in front) led the Hebrews at night through trackless country, training and bringing them to courage and endurance in labors and journeys, so that the good things of the land might appear good after the experience of apparent hardships, the land into which he conducted them out of the trackless country.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:101 · 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

Exod 14:23 · allusion, high confidence
Exod 14:28 · allusion, high confidence
Exod 13:21 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions are Exod 14:23–28 and 13:21.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative ἣν): φανῇ, εἰς ἥν ἐξ ἀνοδίας → φανῇ, εἰς ἣν ἐξ ἀνοδίας.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.24.161 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/24/161/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.24.161 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/24/161/).