Miscellanies 1.27.172
Summary: God's judgments discipline us so that we are not condemned; he trained Israel in the desert as a father disciplines his son.
Greek text · Stählin 2:106–107
κρινόμενοι δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου, φησὶν ὁ ἀπόστολος, παιδευόμεθα, ἵνα μὴ σὺν τῷ κόσμῳ κατακριθῶμεν. προεῖπεν γὰρ ὁ προφήτης· παιδεύων ἐπαίδευσέν με ὁ κύριος, τῷ δὲ θανάτῳ οὐ παρέδωκέν με· ἕνεκα γὰρ τοῦ διδάξαι σε τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ ἐπαίδευσέν σε, φησί, καὶ ἐπείρασέν σε καὶ ἐλιμαγχόνησέν σε καὶ διψῆν ἐποίησέν σε ἐν γῇ ἐρήμῳ, ἵνα γνωσθῇ πάντα τὰ δικαιώματα καὶ τὰ κρίματα αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου ὅσα ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαί σοι σήμερον, καὶ γνώσῃ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου ὅτι ὡς εἴ τις παιδεύσει ἄνθρωπος τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, οὕτω παιδεύσει σε κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν.
English · Claude translation
“But when we are judged by the Lord,” says the apostle, “we are disciplined, so that we may not be condemned with the world.” For the prophet said earlier: “The Lord has disciplined me severely, but he has not given me over to death.” “For in order to teach you his righteousness he disciplined you,” it says, “and tested you, and let you hunger and made you thirst in a desert land, so that all his ordinances and judgments might be known in your heart, all that I command you today; and you will know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord our God will discipline you.”
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- The quotations are 1 Cor 11:32, Ps 118:18 (117:18 LXX), and a free combination of Deut 8:2–5.
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.27.172 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/27/172/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 1.27.172 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/1/27/172/).
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