# Στρώματα 4.23.151

Clement of Alexandria, Στρώματα, Book 4, Chapter 23. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/clement-of-alexandria/text-2/4.23.151

καὶ ἡ μὲν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἀνδρεία ἐμπαθοῦς ὄντος, φασί, κατὰ τὴν οὐσίαν ἄφοβον καὶ ἀήττητον τὸν μετέχοντα αὐτῆς ποιεῖ, καὶ ἔστι δορυφόρος τοῦ νοῦ ὁ θυμὸς ἐν ὑπομονῇ καὶ καρτερίᾳ καὶ τοῖς ὁμοίοις, ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ ἐπιθυμίᾳ τάττεται καὶ ἡ σωφροσύνη καὶ ἡ σωτήριος φρόνησις, θεὸς δὲ ἀπαθὴς ἄθυμός τε καὶ ἀνεπιθύμητος· καὶ οὐ ταύτῃ ἄφοβος ᾗ τὰ δεινὰ οὐκ ἐκκλίνει οὐδὲ μὴν σώφρων ᾗ τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν ἄρχει· οὔτε γὰρ ἂν περιπέσοι τινὶ δεινῷ ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ φύσις οὔτε φεύγει ὁ θεὸς δειλίαν, ὥσπερ οὐδὲ ἐπιθυμήσει, ἵνα καὶ ἄρξῃ ἐπιθυμίας. μυστικῶς οὖν ἐφ’ ἡμῶν καὶ τὸ Πυθαγόρειον ἐλέγετο ἕνα γενέσθαι καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον δεῖν, ἐπεὶ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς εἷς, ἑνὸς ὄντος τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἀμετάτρεπτον τοῦ ἀεὶ θεῖν τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἕξιν.

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Clement of Alexandria, Στρώματα, ed. Otto Stählin. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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