Miscellanies 7.17.108 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2

Ταυτὶ μὲν οὖν καὶ εἰς ὕστερον. τῶν δʼ αἱρέσεων αἳ μὲν ἀπὸ ὀνόματος προσαγορεύονται, ὡς ἡ ἀπὸ Οὐαλεντίνου καὶ Μαρκίωνος καὶ Βασιλείδου, κἂν τὴν Ματθίου αὐχῶσι προσάγεσθαι δόξαν· μία γὰρ ἡ] πάντων γέγονε τῶν ἀποστόλων ὥσπερ διδασκαλία, οὕτως δὲ καὶ [ἡ παράδοσις· αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ τόπου, ὡς οἱ Περατικοί, αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ ἔθνους, ὡς ἡ τῶν Φρυγῶν, αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ ἐνεργείας, ὡς ἡ τῶν Ἐγκρατητῶν, αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ δογμάτων ἰδιαζόντων, ὡς ἡ τῶν Δοκητῶν καὶ ἡ τῶν Αἱματιτῶν, αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ ὑποθέσεων καὶ ὧν τετιμήκασιν, ὡς Καϊανισταί τε καὶ οἱ Ὀφιανοὶ προσαγορευόμενοι, αἳ δὲ ἀφʼ ὧν παρανόμως ἐπετήδευσάν τε καὶ ἐτόλμησαν, ὡς τῶν Σιμωνιανῶν οἱ Ἐντυχῖται καλούμενοι.

English · Claude translation

But these matters must wait until later. Of the heresies, some are named after a person, as those of Valentinus, Marcion, and Basilides, even though they boast of bringing forward the opinion of Matthias; for as the teaching of all the apostles was one, so also was their tradition. Others are named after a place, as the Peratics; others after a nation, as that of the Phrygians; others after a practice, as that of the Encratites; others after peculiar doctrines, as those of the Docetists and the Haematites; others after their premises and what they have honored, as those called Cainites and Ophites; and others after what they have lawlessly practiced and dared, as those of the Simonians who are called Entychites.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2 · 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.

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

The Phrygians are the Montanists; the Encratites rejected marriage, meat, and wine; the Docetists held that Christ only seemed to have a body. The Haematites and Entychites are otherwise almost unknown. The brackets in the digital text around “the” and “tradition” are unbalanced; the words are translated.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (misreading in the digital text (Δοκητῶν); stray period in the digital text; stray periods in the digital text): προσαγορεύονται. ὡς ἡ ἀπὸ Οὐαλεντίνου καὶ Μαρκίωνος καὶ Βασιλείδου. κἂν → προσαγορεύονται, ὡς ἡ ἀπὸ Οὐαλεντίνου καὶ Μαρκίωνος καὶ Βασιλείδου, κἂν; αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ τόπου. ὡς → αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ τόπου, ὡς; αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ ἔθνους. ὡς → αἳ δὲ ἀπὸ ἔθνους, ὡς; Λοκητῶν → Δοκητῶν.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 7.17.108 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/7/17/108/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 7.17.108 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/7/17/108/).