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Miscellanies 5.14.135

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

Summary: Isaiah's Assyrian envoy and the sailors in Jonah show that even nations who had not believed had some awareness of the Almighty God, while believers know him as their own God.

Greek text · Stählin 2:417–418

Ὡσαύτως καὶ τὰ προφητικὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχει τῷ ἀποστολικῷ λόγῳ δύναμιν. Ἡσαΐας μὲν γάρ φησιν· εἰ δὲ λέγετε· ἐπὶ κύριον τὸν θεὸν ἡμῶν πεποίθαμεν· νῦν μίχθητε τῷ κυρίῳ μου βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀσσυρίων. καὶ ἐπιφέρει· καὶ νῦν μὴ ἄνευ κυρίου ἀνέβημεν ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν ταύτην τοῦ πολεμῆσαι αὐτήν; Ἰωνᾶς δὲ ὁ καὶ αὐτὸς προφήτης τὸ αὐτὸ αἰνίσσεται διʼ ὧν φησιν· καὶ εἰσῆλθεν πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ πρῳρεὺς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· τί σὺ ῥέγχεις; ἀνάστηθι, ἐπικαλοῦ τὸν θεόν σου, ὅπως διασώσῃ ἡμᾶς καὶ μὴ ἀπολώμεθα. τὸ μὲν γὰρ ὁ θεός σου τῷ κατʼ ἐπίγνωσιν εἰδότι εἶπεν, τῷ δὲ ὅπως διασώσῃ ἡμᾶς ὁ θεὸς τὴν συναίσθησιν τῶν εἰς τὸν παντοκράτορα ἐπιβαλόντων τὸν νοῦν ἐθνῶν ἐδήλωσεν τῶν μηδέπω πεπιστευκότων. καὶ πάλιν ὁ αὐτός· καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς· δοῦλος κυρίου ἐγώ εἰμι καὶ κύριον τὸν θεὸν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐγὼ φοβοῦμαι.

English · Claude translation

Likewise the prophetic words have the same force as the apostle's saying. For Isaiah says: “But if you say, We have trusted in the Lord our God, now join yourselves to my lord the king of the Assyrians.” And he adds: “And now, have we come up against this land to make war on it without the Lord?” And Jonah, himself also a prophet, hints at the same thing in these words: “And the captain came to him and said to him: Why are you snoring? Get up, call upon your God, that God may save us and we may not perish.” For he said “your God” to one who knew him with full knowledge, and by “that God may save us” he showed the awareness of the nations who had directed their mind to the Almighty but had not yet believed. And again the same: “And he said to them: I am a servant of the Lord, and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven.”

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Source
Stählin 2:417–418 · 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.
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Translation notes

  • The quotations are Isa 36:7–8 and 36:10 and Jonah 1:6 and 1:9.

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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 5.14.135 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/5/14/135/).

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