Miscellanies 3.18.110
Summary: Peter too calls believers to holiness, not to their former desires; Clement ends Book 3, noting that the controversy with the false Gnostics has made it long.
Greek text · Stählin 2:247
καὶ ὁ Πέτρος ἐν τῇ ἐπιστολῇ τὰ ὅμοια λέγει· ὥστε τὴν πίστιν ὑμῶν καὶ ἐλπίδα εἶναι εἰς θεόν, τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν ἡγνικότες ἐν τῇ ὑπακοῇ τῆς ἀληθείας, ὡς τέκνα ὑπακοῆς, μὴ συσχηματιζόμενοι ταῖς πρότερον ἐν τῇ ἀγνοίᾳ ὑμῶν ἐπιθυμίαις, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸν καλέσαντα ὑμᾶς ἅγιον καὶ αὐτοὶ ἅγιοι ἐν πάσῃ ἀναστροφῇ γενήθητε, διότι γέγραπται· ›ἅγιοι ἔσεσθε, διότι ἐγὼ ἅγιος.‹ Ἀλλὰ γὰρ πέρα τοῦ δέοντος ἡ πρὸς τοὺς ψευδωνύμους τῆς γνώσεως ὑποκριτὰς ἀναγκαία γενομένη ἀπήγαγεν ἡμᾶς καὶ εἰς μακρὸν ἐξέτεινε τὸν λόγον ἀντιλογία. ὅθεν καὶ ὁ τρίτος ἡμῖν τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἀληθῆ φιλοσοφίαν γνωστικῶν ὑπομνημάτων Στρωματεὺς τοῦτο ἔχει τὸ πέρας.
English · Claude translation
And Peter in his letter says similar things: “so that your faith and hope may be in God, having purified your souls by obedience to the truth, as children of obedience, not conforming to the desires you formerly had in your ignorance; but as the one who called you is holy, be holy yourselves too in all your conduct, since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, because I am holy.’” But the controversy that became necessary against the hypocrites of knowledge falsely so called has led us beyond what was needed and has stretched the discussion to great length. So the third Miscellany of our notes on knowledge according to the true philosophy reaches its end here.
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- The quotations are 1 Pet 1:21–22, 14–16 (Lev 11:44).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.18.110 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/3/18/110/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 3.18.110 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/3/18/110/).
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