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. . . . . .שׁלמה . . . . . . / \ "Υγιαίνων" "Εἰρηναῖος" No, Clement is not giving Irenaeus a coded name-check here; the sentence becomes nonsensical. The analogy of healthy/diseased, applied to teaching/conduct/soul, is recurrent in Clement. In alluding to the Pastorals, (possib...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Tue Nov 14, 2023 8:14 am

First of all, ὑγιαίνων is a real name. cf. Υγιαίνων του Βοσπόρου. But where is the Word called "ὑγιαίνων"?

1 Tim.6.3 :

"Ει τις ετεροδιδασκαλει και μη προσερχεται ΥΓΙΑΙΝΟΥΣΙΝ ΛΟΓΟΙΣ τοις του Κυριου ημων Ιησου Χριστου"

I think "Κλήμης ὁ στρωματεὺς" is a secret way of saying that Clement was a bishop. He couldn't say it because there must have been some dispute with Demetrius. But στρωματεὺς means "coverer" (stroma + teus as above). "Coverer" is a literal rendering of the Latin "...

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Forum Guide to the Perplexed :

©Secret Alias : Clement of Alexandria

©Peter Kirby : Clement of Rome

Who the hell wouldn't know that? Actually, same goes more or less for all the geographical info in the prologs, but still, who was the author of these prologs writing for, if he felt he had to give that kind of geographical information? Not necessarily bizarre. Greeks, Achaeans, Macedonians, Asians...

I'm curious as to why you don't concur on a Marcionite province for the prologs, can you point me to a forum post where this has been gone over, or give me a thumbnail sketch of why its dubious? Thumbnail sketches are alien to Marcion studies. Less dense and idiosyncratic than Vinzent, and, more to...

DCH has done the heavy lifting, just a couple of addenda here. Jerome is named as the prologue author in the manuscript (386 verso, in red ink). The description's identification of elements from Marcion and Walafrid Strabo derive from C20 scholarship. So no, Jerome does not directly identify the pro...

Ep.366 : a supplementary footnote on μισγεσθαι In a previous post (03 May) I highlighted the curious archaism of μισγεσθαι/'to be mixed with' in Ep.366. Based on lexica and indices, I asserted that Clement of Alexandria was the last known writer to have used the verb when writing in his own voice. S...

ἀ ChatGPT Furthermore, the passage mentions Valentinus in a different context, highlighting his example of self-control and moderation. Valentinus is described as possessing such a strong self-control that he could even eat and drink without consuming the food, preventing it from being corrupted wi...

You are on the right track with κρατηρ/mixing bowl (to mix wine with water), but have been led astray by the seeming resemblance to κρατος/strength. The root verb is κεραννυμι /to mix, the alpha is a negative. So what we have here is a past participle of the derived verb ακρατιζομαι. The sense is : ...