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Miscellanies 1.21.109

Clement of Alexandria · Miscellanies · ca. 198–203 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: Clement begins the chronology of Israel after Moses: Joshua, then the judges Othniel and Ehud.

Textual problem in this passage: the printed text is uncertain or disputed here. See the notes.

Greek text · Stählin 2:70

Ἄξιον δὴ ἐνταῦθα γενομένους διερευνῆσαι καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν μετὰ Μωσέα παρὰ τοῖς Ἑβραίοις προφητῶν τοὺς χρόνους. Μετὰ τὴν Μωυσέως τοῦ βίου τελευτὴν διαδέχεται τὴν ἡγεμονίαν τοῦ λαοῦ Ἰησοῦς πολεμῶν μὲν ἔτη † ξε΄, ἐν δὲ τῇ γῇ τῇ ἀγαθῇ ἄλλα πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι ἀναπαυσάμενος. ὡς δὲ τὸ βιβλίον τοῦ Ἰησοῦ περιέχει, διεδέξατο τὸν Μωυσέα ὁ προειρημένος ἀνὴρ ἔτη κζ΄. ἔπειτα ἁμαρτόντες οἱ Ἑβραῖοι παραδίδονται Χουσαχὰρ βασιλεῖ Μεσοποταμίας ἔτεσιν ὀκτώ, ὡς ἡ τῶν Κριτῶν ἱστορεῖ βίβλος· δεηθέντες δὲ ὕστερον τοῦ θεοῦ λαμβάνουσιν ἡγεμόνα Γοθονιὴλ τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Χαλὲβ τὸν νεώτερον ἐκ φυλῆς Ἰούδα, ὃς ἀποκτείνας τὸν τῆς Μεσοποταμίας βασιλέα ἦρξε τοῦ λαοῦ ἔτεσιν ἐφεξῆς ν΄. καὶ πάλιν ἁμαρτόντες παρεδόθησαν Αἰγλὼμ βασιλεῖ Μωαβιτῶν ἔτεσιν ὀκτωκαίδεκα, ἐπιστρεψάντων δὲ αὐτῶν αὖθις ἡγήσατο αὐτῶν Ἀὼδ ἔτεσιν ὀγδοήκοντα, ἀνὴρ ἀμφοτεροδέξιος ἐκ φυλῆς Ἐφραΐμ· οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἀνελὼν τὸν Αἰγλώμ.

English · Claude translation

Having come here, it is worth examining the times of the other prophets among the Hebrews after Moses. After the end of Moses' life, Joshua succeeded to the leadership of the people, fighting for … years and resting in the good land another twenty-five. As the book of Joshua contains, the man just mentioned succeeded Moses for twenty-seven years. Then the Hebrews, having sinned, were handed over to Chushan, king of Mesopotamia, for eight years, as the book of Judges relates; and afterward, having prayed to God, they received as leader Othniel, the younger brother of Caleb, of the tribe of Judah, who killed the king of Mesopotamia and ruled the people for fifty years. And again, having sinned, they were handed over to Eglon, king of the Moabites, for eighteen years; and when they turned back, Ehud led them for eighty years, a man ambidextrous, of the tribe of Ephraim; he is the one who killed Eglon.

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Source
Stählin 2:70 · 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; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.
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
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • The number of Joshua's years of war is corrupt (dagger). The allusions are Judg 3:8–30. The judges' tribes and numbers sometimes differ from the Hebrew text.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong accent on the relative ὃς): ἐκ φυλῆς Ἰούδα, ὅς ἀποκτείνας → ἐκ φυλῆς Ἰούδα, ὃς ἀποκτείνας.

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.109 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/109/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.21.109 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/21/109/).

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