Miscellanies 4.25.156
Summary: God the Father is beyond demonstration, but the Son is wisdom, knowledge, and truth, open to demonstration; all the Spirit's powers are united in him, not as parts but as one, a circle of all powers.
Greek text · Stählin 2:317–318
ὁ μὲν οὖν θεὸς ἀναπόδεικτος ὢν οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπιστημονικός, ὁ δὲ υἱὸς σοφία τέ ἐστι καὶ ἐπιστήμη καὶ ἀλήθεια καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τούτῳ συγγενῆ, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἀπόδειξιν ἔχει καὶ διέξοδον. πᾶσαι δὲ αἱ δυνάμεις τοῦ πνεύματος συλλήβδην μὲν ἕν τι πρᾶγμα γενόμεναι συντελοῦσιν εἰς τὸ αὐτό, τὸν υἱόν, ἀπαρέμφατος δέ ἐστι τῆς περὶ ἑκάστης αὐτοῦ τῶν δυνάμεων ἐννοίας. καὶ δὴ οὐ γίνεται ἀτεχνῶς ἓν ὡς ἕν, οὐδὲ πολλὰ ὡς μέρη ὁ υἱός, ἀλλʼ ὡς πάντα ἕν. ἔνθεν καὶ πάντα· κύκλος γὰρ ὁ αὐτὸς πασῶν τῶν δυνάμεων εἰς ἓν εἰλουμένων καὶ ἑνουμένων.
English · Claude translation
God, then, being indemonstrable, is not an object of scientific knowledge; but the Son is wisdom, knowledge, truth, and whatever else is akin to these; and indeed he admits demonstration and exposition. All the powers of the Spirit, becoming collectively one thing, contribute to the same, the Son; but he is not fully expressed by the concept of each of his powers. And the Son does not become simply one as one, nor many as parts, but as all one. Hence he is also all things; for he is the circle of all the powers rolled and united into one.
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- An important passage for Clement's theology of the Son (Logos).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.25.156 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/25/156/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Strom. 4.25.156 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-stromata/4/25/156/).
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