# Greek Fragments on the Passover (Stählin)

- Author: [Clement of Alexandria](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/clement-of-alexandria/)
- Latin title: *Fragmenta Graeca de Pascha (Staehlin)*
- Date: late 2nd-early 3rd century (approximate)
- Source: O. Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus 3, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909), 195-230

- Translation: Claude, from the original text, unless a passage says otherwise; each passage below gives the translator
- Work page: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-fragmenta-staehlin-graeca-2/
- Passages: 3

## Fragment 30 (On the Passover; Sacra Parallela)

- URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-fragmenta-staehlin-graeca-2/30/#p-30
- Source: GCS 17 17:217
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27

Summary: A rule of logic: opposites cannot belong to the same thing at once in the same respect.

### Greek text

Τὰ ἐναντία ἅμα τῷ αὐτῷ κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ πρὸς τὸ αὐτὸ συμβῆναι ἀδύνατον.

### English translation (Claude)

It is impossible for contraries to occur at the same time in the same thing, in the same respect, and in relation to the same thing.

### Extrabiblical texts

- Aristotle, Metaph. 4.3 (Aristotle (works)): echo, low confidence

### Translation notes

- From Clement's lost work On the Passover, preserved in the Sacra Parallela. The saying restates the principle of non-contradiction (compare Aristotle, Metaphysics 4.3).

### Citation (SBL)

Clement of Alexandria, Frag. (Stählin) 30 (GCS 17 17:217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-fragmenta-staehlin-graeca-2/30/#p-30).

## Fragment 31 (On the Passover; Sacra Parallela)

- URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-fragmenta-staehlin-graeca-2/30/#p-31
- Source: GCS 17 17:217
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27

Summary: Self-knowledge makes a person a dwelling and throne of the Lord.

### Greek text

Ὁ ἄρα γινώσκων ἑαυτὸν τόπος ἐστὶ καὶ θρόνος τοῦ κυρίου.

### English translation (Claude)

He, then, who knows himself is a place and throne of the Lord.

### Translation notes

- From On the Passover, preserved in the Sacra Parallela.

### Citation (SBL)

Clement of Alexandria, Frag. (Stählin) 31 (GCS 17 17:217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-fragmenta-staehlin-graeca-2/30/#p-31).

## Fragment 32 (On the Passover; Sacra Parallela)

- URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-fragmenta-staehlin-graeca-2/30/#p-32
- Source: GCS 17 17:217
- Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27

Summary: A piece of natural lore: lions' bones give off sparks like flint.

### Greek text

Κοπτομένων τῶν λεοντίων ὀστέων καθάπερ ἐκ τῶν πυρίων λίθων πῦρ ἐξάπτεται.

### English translation (Claude)

When lions' bones are struck, fire is kindled from them as from flints.

### Translation notes

- From On the Passover, preserved in the Sacra Parallela and by Nicephorus of Constantinople; the lore about lions' bones is also found in ancient natural history.

### Citation (SBL)

Clement of Alexandria, Frag. (Stählin) 32 (GCS 17 17:217; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-fragmenta-staehlin-graeca-2/30/#p-32).