Wherefore they are seen to paedagoogus yellow from the use of cosmetics, and susceptible to disease, their flesh, which has been shaded with poisons, being now in a melting state. But in the evening this spurious beauty creeps out to candle-light as out of a hole; for drunkenness and the dimness of the light aid what they have put on. But the compassionate God Himself set the flesh free, and releasing it from destruction, and from bitter and deadly bondage, endowed it with incorruptibility, arraying the flesh in this, the holy embellishment of eternity — immortality.
For lust becomes and fabricates all things, and wishes to cheat, so as to conceal the man. Titus Flavius Clement, probably an Athenian, succeeded his teacher Pantaenus as head of the Catechetical School at Alexandria in 190. On Early Christian Writings.
A man no longer appears like a strong wild beast. The writings of Clement of Alexandria by Clement of Alexandria, Saint, 1867, T. & T. Clark edition, in English
She smears them with ceruse. If any one were clemrnt call these courtesans, he would make no mistake, for they turn their faces into masks.
She has something sewed on to her, so that the spectators May exclaim on her fine shape behind.
For first, in comparison with gain and the spoiling of neighbours, All else is in their eyes superfluous. But to those who are fond of gold, and purple, and jewels, neither the gold that is above the earth and below it is sufficient, nor the Tyrian Sea, nor the freight that comes from India and Ethiopianor yet Pactolus flowing with gold; not even were a man to become a Midas would he be satisfied, but would be still poor, craving other wealth. Passions break out, pleasures overflow; beauty fades, and falls quicker than the leaf on the ground, when the amorous storms of lust blow on it before the coming of autumn, and is withered by destruction. She stitches cork into her shoe-sole. His principal works extant are the Protrepticos (Exhortation to Conversion), the We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website.
And the flesh being a slave, as Paul testifies, how can one with any reason pwedagogus the handmaid like a pimp?
For the Word Himself is the manifest mystery: God in man, and man God.
<> 150-ca. The god of the Egyptians appears a beast rolling on a purple couch. For the theatre, and pageants, and many spectators, and strolling in the temples, and loitering in the streets, that they may be seen conspicuously by all, are necessary to them.
For as the Greek fable has it, it was not a fortunate thing for the beautiful Narcissus to have been the beholder of his own image. It is not, then, the aspect of the outward man, but the soul that is to be decorated with the ornament of goodness; we may say also the flesh with the adornment of temperance. Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Is one very white-skinned?
But the irascible part, being brutal, dwells near to insanity. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. There is, too, another beauty of men — love. The divine Instructor enjoins us not to approach to another’s river, meaning by the figurative expression another’s river, another’s wife; the wanton that flows to all, and out of licentiousness gives herself up to meretricious enjoyment with all. Author: Clement, of Alexandria, Saint, approximately approximately Link: HTML with commentary at CCEL. Thrice, I say, not once, do they deserve clenent perish, who use crocodiles’ excrement, and anoint themselves with the froth of putrid humours, and stain their eyebrows with soot, alexahdria rub their cheeks with white lead.
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3.1.2.1; Strom. She stains them with soot. Just as the plastered hand and the anointed eye exhibit from their very look the suspicion of a person in illness, so also cosmetics and dyes indicate that the soul is deeply diseased.
So those women who wear gold, occupying themselves in curling at their locks, and engaged in anointing their cheeks, painting their eyes, and dyeing their hair, and practising the other pernicious arts of luxury, decking the covering of flesh — in truthimitate the Egyptiansin order to attract their infatuated lovers. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. The date and place of birth of Clement of Alexandria, born Titus Flavius Clemens, are not known, though it is likely that he was born in the decade 150-160, possibly in Athens. Now, God alone is in need of nothing, and rejoices most when He sees us bright with the ornament of intelligence; and then, too, rejoices in him who is arrayed in chastitythe sacred stole of the body. Has she beautiful teeth? For as the brand shows the slave, so do gaudy colors the adulteress.
The Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria (ca. Featuring the Church Fathers, Catholic Encyclopedia, Summa Theologica and more. comme no 15 de la collection.
Is it not monstrous, that while horses, birds, and the rest of paaedagogus animals, spring and bound from the grass and meadows, rejoicing in ornament alexabdria is their own, in mane, and natural color, and varied plumage; womanas if inferior to the brute creation, should think herself so unlovely as to need foreign, and bought, and painted beauty? Wherefore in the comic poet the sensible woman says, What can we women do wise or brilliant, who sit with hair dyed yellow, clemwnt the character of gentlewomen; causing the overthrow of houses, the ruin of nuptials, and accusations on the part of children?
Wherefore he adds, does not behave itself unseemly: For truth calls that its own which belongs to it; but the love of finery seeks what is not its own, being apart from Godand the Word, from love. But that man with whom the Word dwells does not alter himself, does not get himself up: Heraclitus, then, rightly said, Men are gods, and gods are men. In the same way, Antiphanes the comic poet, in Malthacaridicules the meretriciousness of women in words that apply to them all, and are framed against the rubbing of themselves with cosmetics, saying: She comes, She goes back, she alexanddia, she goes back.
Love of dainties and love of wine, though great vicesare not of such magnitude as fondness for finery.
And appetite, which is the third department, is many-shaped above Proteus, the varying sea-god, who changed himself now into one shape, now into another; and it allures to adulteries, to licentiousness, to seductions. The woman who dyes her hair yellow, Menander the comic poet expels from the house: Unawares the poor wretches destroy their own beauty, by the clemsnt of what is spurious. 215) sought to integrate Greek classical culture with Christian faith. And loveaccording to the apostle, suffers long, and is kind; envies not; vaunts not itself, is not puffed up. Paedagogus by Clement of Alexandria. 4:10 Jealousy compelled Moses to flee from the face of Pharaoh king of Address of Clement of Alexandria to the heathen, Tractarian Movement 1834 Protrepticus (Wilson translation) by William Wilson from Ante-Nicene Christian Library , 1867 Protrepticus (Butterworth translation) by G. W. Butterworth, 1919 Clement of Alexandria's Interpretation of Scripture: An Allegorical Approach for a Deeper Meaning (Stacie Anderson, Bethany Ruggles, & Julie Toomey): Richard Bauckham, "The Fall of the Angels as the Source of Philosophy In Hermias and Clement of Alexandria," Vigiliae Christianae 39.4 (1985): 313-330. And by and by I will fortify them with the divine Scriptures.
I set these quotations from the comic poets before you, since the Word most strenuously wishes to save us.
%PDF-1.4 Clement, of Alexandria, Saint, ca. And if Plutus is blind, are not those women that are crazy about him, and have a fellow-feeling with him, blind too? Also spelled “Pædagogus”, originally παιδαγωγός in Greek, commonly translated as “The Instructor” or. For that which is of flesh has the form of a servant. �p����H/��vd�S�&��^��=F�+)��s�����W���fw���s��BZ��e��g,��l1e>;���6�i���8���[�1����1(����v��^C�=��VC���xD�����E�J�ʩqJ5������@�\���1��ca4$Y$�ʱr��j��Ts������ ��U6���u�H���u��&j��~E�LЪq"�7���K��+�/+\JVL勍�|��$���%.�Y.؛�lUW/��&D. Do they happen to be black?
And if Moses commanded men to make not an image to represent God by art, how can these women be right, who by their own reflection produce an imitation paedagogue their own likeness, paedagotus order to the falsifying of their faces?
She must needs laugh, That those present may see what a pretty mouth she has; But if not in the humour for laughing, she passes the day within, With a slender sprig of myrtle between her lips, Like what cooks have always at hand when they have goats’ heads to sell, So that she must keep them apart the while, whether she will or not. At the dawn of day, mangling, racking, and plastering themselves over with certain alexandira, they chill the skin, furrow the flesh with poisons, and with curiously prepared washes, thus blighting their own beauty. The deception rather requires paedaoggus veil thrown over it.
For he will not find the image of God dwelling within, as is meet; but instead of it a fornicator and adulteress has occupied the shrine of the soul.
And that the Lord Himself was uncomely in aspect, the Spirit testifies by Esaias: And we saw Him, and He had no form nor comeliness but His form was mean, inferior to men. A full table and repeated cups are enough to satisfy greed.
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For love of display is not for a lady, clemen a courtesan. 215, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, http://books.google.com/books?id=n1wPAAAAYAAJ&oe=UTF-8, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014).
4:9 Jealousy caused Joseph to be persecuted even unto death, and to come even unto bondage.
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CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA PAEDAGOGUS PDF - Bishop Kaye (Some Account of the Writings and Opinions of Clement of Alexandria, p. 48) translates, “receiving from … 215; Stählin, Otto, 1868-1949; Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.
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