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Miscellanies 2.6.29

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

Summary: The Gentile church has inherited Israel's covenant; the old and new covenants are one in power, given by one God through the Son; salvation runs “from faith to faith,” from prophecy to gospel.

Greek text · Stählin 2:128–129

ἐπιφέρει γοῦν σαφέστερον· ἐκληρονόμησας τὴν διαθήκην τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, τῇ ἐξ ἐθνῶν κλήσει λέγων, τῇ στείρᾳ ποτὲ τούτου τοῦ ἀνδρός, ὅς ἐστιν ὁ λόγος, τῇ ἐρήμῳ πρότερον τοῦ νυμφίου. ὁ δὲ δίκαιος ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται, τῆς κατὰ τὴν διαθήκην καὶ τὰς ἐντολάς, ἐπειδὴ δύο αὗται ὀνόματι καὶ χρόνῳ, καθʼ ἡλικίαν καὶ προκοπὴν οἰκονομικῶς δεδομέναι, δυνάμει μία οὖσαι, ἣ μὲν παλαιά, ἣ δὲ καινή, διὰ υἱοῦ παρʼ ἑνὸς θεοῦ χορηγοῦνται. ᾗ καὶ ὁ ἀπόστολος ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ἐπιστολῇ λέγει· δικαιοσύνη γὰρ θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀποκαλύπτεται ἐκ πίστεως εἰς πίστιν, τὴν μίαν τὴν ἐκ προφητείας εἰς εὐαγγέλιον τετελειωμένην διʼ ἑνὸς καὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ κυρίου διδάσκων σωτηρίαν. ταύτην, ἔφη, παρατίθεμαί σοι τὴν παραγγελίαν, τέκνον Τιμόθεε, κατὰ τὰς προαγούσας ἐπὶ σὲ προφητείας, ἵνα στρατεύσῃ ἐν αὐταῖς τὴν καλὴν στρατείαν, ἔχων πίστιν καὶ ἀγαθὴν συνείδησιν, ἥν τινες ἀπωσάμενοι περὶ τὴν πίστιν ἐναυάγησαν, ὅτι τὴν θεόθεν ἥκουσαν συνείδησιν ἀπιστίᾳ κατεμίαναν.

English · Claude translation

At any rate he adds more clearly: “You have inherited the covenant of Israel,” speaking to the calling from the Gentiles, once barren of this husband, who is the Word, formerly deserted by the Bridegroom. “And the righteous will live by faith,” the faith according to the covenant and the commandments, since these, two in name and time, given by the divine plan according to age and progress, but one in power, the one old, the other new, are supplied through the Son by one God. As the apostle too says in the letter to the Romans: “For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith,” teaching the one salvation, perfected from prophecy to gospel through one and the same Lord. “This charge I commit to you,” he said, “my child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, having faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and made shipwreck of the faith,” because they defiled with unbelief the conscience that came from God.

About this passage

Source
Stählin 2:128–129 · 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
Topics
Scripture and canon, Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are an unidentified prophetic saying, Hab 2:4, Rom 1:17, and 1 Tim 1:18–19. The unity of the two covenants is directed against Marcion.

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.6.29 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/2/6/29/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 2.6.29 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/2/6/29/).

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