Miscellanies 4.17.108

Clement of Alexandria · Miscellanies · ca. 198–203 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: Following 1 Clement: respect leaders and elders, instruct the young, lead wives to purity, gentleness, and impartial love, and teach children humility, pure love, and the fear of the Lord, who searches hearts.

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Greek text · Stählin 2:295–296

ἐντραπῶμεν οὖν τοὺς προηγουμένους ἡμῶν καὶ αἰδεσθῶμεν, τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους τιμήσωμεν, τοὺς νέους παιδεύσωμεν τὴν παιδείαν τοῦ θεοῦ. μακάριος γὰρ ὃς ἂν διδάσκῃ καὶ ποιῇ τὰ τοῦ κυρίου κατʼ ἀξίαν· μεγαλόφρονος δὲ ἐννοίας ἐστὶν καὶ θεωρητικῆς τῆς ἀληθείας. τὰς γυναῖκας ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τὸ ἀγαθὸν διορθωσώμεθα, τὸ ἀξιαγάπητον ἦθος τῆς ἁγνείας, φησίν, ἐνδειξάσθωσαν· τὸ ἀκέραιον τῆς πραΰτητος αὐτῶν βούλημα ἀποδειξάτωσαν· τὸ ἐπιεικὲς τῆς γλώσσης αὐτῶν διὰ τῆς σιγῆς φανερὸν ποιησάτωσαν, τὴν ἀγάπην αὐτῶν μὴ κατὰ προσκλίσεις, ἀλλὰ πᾶσι τοῖς φοβουμένοις τὸν θεὸν ὁσίως ἴσην παρεχέτωσαν. τὰ τέκνα ἡμῶν τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ παιδείας μεταλαβέτωσαν· μαθέτωσαν τί ταπεινοφροσύνη παρὰ θεῷ ἰσχύει, τί ἀγάπη ἁγνὴ παρὰ θεῷ δύναται, πῶς ὁ φόβος τοῦ κυρίου καλὸς καὶ μέγας, σῴζων πάντας τοὺς ἐν αὐτῷ ὁσίως ἀναστρεφομένους ἐν καθαρᾷ καρδίᾳ. ἐρευνητὴς γὰρ ἐννοιῶν καὶ ἐνθυμημάτων· οὗ ἡ πνοὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν ἐστι, καὶ ὅταν θέλῃ, ἀνελεῖ αὐτήν.

English · Claude translation

“Let us, then, respect those who lead us and be reverent; let us honor the elders; let us instruct the young in the instruction of God.” For blessed is the one who teaches and does the Lord's things worthily; and this belongs to a magnanimous mind that contemplates the truth. “Let us direct our wives toward the good. Let them show,” he says, “the lovely character of purity; let them display the sincere will of their gentleness; let them make manifest the forbearance of their tongue through silence; let them show their love not by partiality, but equally to all who fear God in holiness. Let our children share in the instruction that is in Christ; let them learn what humility can do with God, what pure love can do with God, how the fear of the Lord is good and great, saving all who live in it holily with a pure heart. For he is a searcher of thoughts and intentions; his breath is in us, and when he wills he will take it away.”

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Source

Stählin 2:295–296 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

1 Clem. 21.6–9 (1 Clement) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Ethics, Church office, Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is 1 Clem. 21.6–9 (with Clement's own comment inserted).

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.17.108 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/17/108/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.17.108 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/17/108/).

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