Miscellanies 3.13.92 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 2:238

καὶ ἔτι ἐπαγωνιζόμενος τῇ ἀθέῳ δόξῃ ἐπιφέρει· πῶς δὲ οὐκ ἂν καὶ εὐλόγως τις αἰτιῷτο τὸν σωτῆρα, εἰ μετέπλασεν ἡμᾶς καὶ τῆς πλάνης ἀπήλλαξεν καὶ τῆς κοινωνίας τῶν μορίων καὶ προσθεμάτων καὶ αἰδοίων; τὰ παραπλήσια τῷ Τατιανῷ κατὰ τοῦτο δογματίζων. ὁ δʼ ἐκ τῆς Οὐαλεντίνου ἐξεφοίτησε σχολῆς. διὰ τοῦτό τοι ὁ Κασσιανός φησι· πυνθανομένης τῆς Σαλώμης πότε γνωσθήσεται τὰ περὶ ὧν ἤρετο, ἔφη ὁ κύριος· >ὅταν τὸ τῆς αἰσχύνης ἔνδυμα πατήσητε καὶ ὅταν γένηται τὰ δύο ἓν καὶ τὸ ἄρρεν μετὰ τῆς θηλείας οὔτε ἄρρεν οὔτε θῆλυ.‹

English · Claude translation

And, contending further for his godless opinion, he adds: “And how could someone not reasonably blame the Savior, if he refashioned us and freed us from error and from the fellowship of the parts, the appendages, and the genitals?” In this he teaches things similar to Tatian; but he came out of the school of Valentinus. That is why Cassianus says: “When Salome asked when what she had asked about would be known, the Lord said: ‘When you tread on the garment of shame, and when the two become one, and the male with the female neither male nor female.’”

About this passage

Source

Stählin 2:238 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Gos. Eg. (Gospel of the Egyptians) · quotation, high confidence
2 Clem. 12.2 (2 Clement) · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy, Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation of Cassianus includes a saying from the Gospel of the Egyptians (compare 2 Clem. 12.2; Gos. Thom. 22, 37).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (accent: grave on ἓν): γένηται τὰ δύο ἕν καὶ → γένηται τὰ δύο ἓν καὶ.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.13.92 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/3/13/92/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.13.92 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/3/13/92/).