Miscellanies 4.20.128 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:304–305

χαριέντως γοῦν ἐν τῇ πρὸς Τίτον ἐπιστολῇ ὁ ἀπόστολος δεῖν εἶναί φησι τὰς πρεσβύτιδας ἐν καταστήματι ἱεροπρεπεῖ, μὴ διαβόλους, μὴ οἴνῳ πολλῷ δεδουλωμένας, ἵνα σωφρονίζωσι τὰς νέας φιλάνδρους εἶναι, φιλοτέκνους, σώφρονας, ἁγνάς, οἰκουρούς, ἀγαθάς, ὑποτασσομένας τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, ἵνα μὴ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ βλασφημῆται. μᾶλλον δέ, φησίν, εἰρήνην διώκετε μετὰ πάντων καὶ τὸν ἁγιασμόν, οὗ χωρὶς οὐδεὶς ὄψεται τὸν κύριον, ἐπισκοποῦντες μή τις πόρνος ἢ βέβηλος ὡς Ἠσαῦ, ὃς ἀντὶ βρώσεως μιᾶς ἀπέδοτο τὰ πρωτοτόκια, καὶ μή τις ῥίζα πικρίας ἄνω φύουσα ἐνοχλῇ καὶ διʼ αὐτῆς μιανθῶσιν οἱ πολλοί.

English · Claude translation

Gracefully, then, in the letter to Titus the apostle says that older women should be reverent in behavior, “not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, so that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be self-restrained, pure, workers at home, good, submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be blasphemed.” “But rather,” he says, “pursue peace with all, and sanctification, without which no one will see the Lord, seeing to it that there is no sexually immoral or profane person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright, and that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and through it the many be defiled.”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:304–305 · 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

Titus 2:3 · quotation, high confidence
Titus 2:4 · quotation, high confidence
Titus 2:5 · quotation, high confidence
Heb 12:14 · quotation, high confidence
Heb 12:15 · quotation, high confidence
Heb 12:16 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Marriage, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Titus 2:3–5 and Heb 12:14–16 (a free form).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative ὃς): ὡς Ἠσαῦ, ὅς ἀντὶ βρώσεως → ὡς Ἠσαῦ, ὃς ἀντὶ βρώσεως.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.20.128 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/20/128/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.20.128 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/20/128/).