Miscellanies 5.14.125 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:410–411

καὶ τὰ διὰ Ἡσαΐου τίς ἐμέτρησεν τὸν οὐρανὸν σπιθαμῇ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν δρακί; πάλιν ὅταν εἴπῃ· αἰθέρος ἠδʼ Ἀίδου, πόντου γαίης τε τύραννε, ὅς βρονταῖς σείεις βριαρὸν δόμον Οὐλύμποιο· δαίμονες ὃν φρίσσουσιν, θεῶν δὲ δέδοικεν ὅμιλος· ᾧ Μοῖραι πείθονται, ἀμείλικτοί περ ἐοῦσαι· ἄφθιτε, μητροπάτωρ, οὗ θυμῷ πάντα δονεῖται· ὃς κινεῖς ἀνέμους, νεφέλῃσι δὲ πάντα καλύπτεις, πρηστῆρσι σχίζων πλατὺν αἰθέρα· σὴ μὲν ἐν ἄστροις τάξις, ἀναλλάκτοισιν ἐφημοσύναισι τρέχουσα· σῷ δὲ θρόνῳ πυρόεντι παρεστᾶσιν πολύμοχθοι ἄγγελοι, οἷσι μέμηλε βροτοῖς ὡς πάντα τελεῖται· σὸν μὲν ἔαρ λάμπει νέον ἄνθεσι πορφυρέοισιν· σὸς χειμὼν ψυχραῖσιν ἐπερχόμενος νεφέλαισιν· σάς ποτε βακχευτὴς Βρόμιος διένειμεν ὀπώρας.

English · Claude translation

and the words through Isaiah, “Who has measured the heaven with a span and all the earth with a handful?” Again, when he says: “Ruler of ether and of Hades, of sea and of earth, who with thunders shake the strong house of Olympus; before whom daemons shudder, and the throng of gods is afraid; whom the Fates obey, relentless though they are; imperishable, mother-father, by whose wrath all things are shaken; who move the winds, and cover all things with clouds, splitting the broad ether with lightning-blasts; yours is the order among the stars, running by unchangeable commands; beside your fiery throne stand angels of many labors, whose care it is how all things are accomplished for mortals; yours is the spring, shining new with purple flowers; yours the winter, coming on with cold clouds; yours are the autumn fruits that Bromius the reveler once distributed.”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:410–411 · 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

Isa 40:12 · quotation, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Orpheus (attributed), Orph. frag. (Orpheus (attributed), Orphic poems (fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Isa 40:12 and an Orphic hymn (the same Jewish-Orphic tradition). Bromius is a name of Dionysus. Corrected ἐφημοσύναιςι to ἐφημοσύναισι.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (final sigma inside a word in the digital text): ἐφημοσύναιςι → ἐφημοσύναισι.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 5.14.125 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/5/14/125/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 5.14.125 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/5/14/125/).