The Instructor 1.9.80
Summary: Reviling, accusation, and lamentation are further forms of the Instructor's correction, found in Isaiah, John the Baptist, David, and Jeremiah.
Greek text · Stählin 1:136–137
Λοιδορία δέ ἐστι ψόγος ἐπιτεταμένος. κέχρηται δὲ τῇ λοιδορίᾳ ἐν φαρμάκου μοίρᾳ διὰ Ἡσαΐου λέγων »οὐαὶ ἔθνος ἁμαρτωλόν, υἱοὶ ἄνομοι, λαὸς πλήρης ἁμαρτιῶν, σπέρμα πονηρόν« κἀν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ διὰ Ἰωάννου »ὄφεις« φησὶν »γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν«. Ἔγκλησις δέ ἐστι ψόγος ἀδικούντων. τούτῳ τῷ παιδαγωγήματι διὰ Δαβὶδ κέχρηται, »λαός, ὃν οὐκ ἔγνων,« λέγων »ἐδούλευσέν μοι καὶ εἰς ἀκοὴν ὠτίου ὑπήκουσέν μου, υἱοὶ ἀλλότριοι ἐψεύσαντό μοι καὶ ἐχώλαναν ἀπὸ τῶν τρίβων αὐτῶν«, καὶ διὰ Ἱερεμίου· »καὶ ἔδωκα αὐτῇ βιβλίον ἀποστασίου, καὶ οὐκ ἐφοβήθη ἀσύνθετος Ἰούδα«, αὖθίς τε· »καὶ ἠθέτησεν εἰς ἐμὲ ὁ οἶκος Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ὁ οἶκος Ἰούδα ἐψεύσατο τῷ κυρίῳ.« Μεμψιμοιρία δέ ἐστι λάθριος ψόγος, τεχνικῇ βοηθείᾳ καὶ αὐτὴ σωτηρίαν οἰκονομουμένη ἐν παρακαλύμματι. κέχρηται δὲ αὐτῇ διὰ Ἱερεμίου· »πῶς ἐκάθισεν μόνη ἡ πόλις ἡ πεπληθυμμένη λαῶν; ἐγενήθη ὡσεὶ χήρα· ἄρχουσα χωρῶν ἐγενήθη εἰς φόρους· κλαίουσα ἔκλαυσεν ἐν νυκτί.«
English · Claude translation
Reviling (loidoria) is intensified blame. He uses reviling as a medicine through Isaiah, saying: “Woe, sinful nation, lawless sons, a people full of sins, an evil seed”; and in the Gospel through John he says, “Serpents, brood of vipers.” Accusation (enklēsis) is blame of wrongdoers. He uses this means of instruction through David, saying: “A people whom I did not know served me, and at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me; foreign sons lied to me and limped from their paths”; and through Jeremiah: “And I gave her a certificate of divorce, and faithless Judah did not fear”; and again: “And the house of Israel dealt faithlessly with me, and the house of Judah lied to the Lord.” Lamentation (mempsimoiria) is hidden blame, and it too, by skillful help, works salvation under a veil. He uses it through Jeremiah: “How the city that was full of peoples sits alone! She has become like a widow; the ruler of lands has become subject to tribute; she weeps bitterly in the night.”
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Translation notes
- The quotations are Isa 1:4, Matt 3:7 (Luke 3:7), Ps 18:43–45 (17:44–46 LXX), Jer 3:8, Jer 5:11–12, and Lam 1:1–2. Lamentations was counted as part of Jeremiah.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray space before the closing quotation mark): ων, « → ων,«.
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Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.9.80 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/9/80/).
Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.9.80 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-paedagogus/1/9/80/).
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