Miscellanies 2.20.104 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:170

ταύτην κτήσεται τὴν ὑπομονὴν ὁ γνωστικὸς ᾗ γνωστικός, εὐλογήσει πειραζόμενος ὡς ὁ γενναῖος Ἰώβ, ὡς Ἰωνᾶς εὔξεται καταπινόμενος ὑπὸ κήτους, καὶ ἡ πίστις αὐτὸν ἀποκαταστήσει Νινευίταις προφητεύοντα· κἂν μετὰ λεόντων καθειρχθῇ, ἡμερώσει τὰ θηρία, κἂν εἰς πῦρ ἐμβληθῇ, δροσισθήσεται, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐκπυρωθήσεται· μαρτυρήσει νύκτωρ, μαρτυρήσει μεθʼ ἡμέραν· ἐν λόγῳ, ἐν βίῳ, ἐν τρόπῳ μαρτυρήσει· σύνοικος ὢν τῷ κυρίῳ ὀαριστής τε καὶ συνέστιος κατὰ τὸ πνεῦμα διαμενεῖ, καθαρὸς μὲν τὴν σάρκα, καθαρὸς δὲ τὴν καρδίαν, ἡγιασμένος τὸν λόγον, ὁ κόσμος τούτῳ, φησίν, ἐσταύρωται καὶ αὐτὸς τῷ κόσμῳ. οὗτος τὸν σταυρὸν τοῦ σωτῆρος περιφέρων ἕπεται κυρίῳ μετʼ ἴχνιον ὥστε θεοῖο, ἅγιος ἁγίων γενόμενος.

English · Claude translation

The one who knows, insofar as he knows, will acquire this patience. He will bless when tested, like the noble Job; like Jonah, he will pray when swallowed by the sea monster, and faith will restore him to prophesy to the Ninevites; and even if he is shut up with lions, he will tame the beasts; and if he is thrown into fire, he will be bedewed and not burned up. He will bear witness by night, he will bear witness by day; in word, in life, in manner he will bear witness. Dwelling with the Lord, he will remain his familiar friend and companion at table according to the Spirit, pure in flesh, pure in heart, sanctified in word. “The world,” it says, “has been crucified to him, and he to the world.” Carrying the Savior's cross, he follows the Lord, “stepping in the footprints as of a god,” having become holy among the holy.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:170 · 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

Job 1:21 · allusion, high confidence
Jonah 2:1 · allusion, high confidence
Jonah 3:4 · allusion, medium confidence
Dan 6:22 · allusion, high confidence
Dan 3:25 · allusion, medium confidence
Gal 6:14 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 16:24 · allusion, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Pr Azar 27 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men) · allusion, medium confidence
Homer, Od. 2.406 (Homer, Odyssey) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Martyrdom, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

The allusions and quotations are Job 1:21, Jonah 2, Dan 6:22; 3:50 (LXX; Prayer of Azariah 27), Gal 6:14, Matt 16:24, and Homer, Odyssey 2.406 (“stepping in the footprints as of a god”). Clement uses “bear witness” (μαρτυρεῖν) in its wide sense, including but not limited to martyrdom.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): ὁ κόσμος τούτῳ. φησίν, → ὁ κόσμος τούτῳ, φησίν,.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.20.104 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/2/20/104/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.20.104 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/2/20/104/).