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Clement of Alexandria : O THE PERFECT CHILD!

from Clement's Instructor (Paedagogus), * 1.5, translated by A. Roberts and J. Donaldson.
Text in <angle brackets> added by Elpenor.
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And where, then, was the door by which the Lord showed Himself? The flesh by which He was manifested. He is Isaac (for the narrative may be interpreted otherwise), who is a type of the Lord, a child as a son; for he was the son of Abraham, as Christ the Son of God, and a sacrifice as the Lord, but he was not immolated as the Lord. Isaac only bore the wood of the sacrifice, as the Lord the wood of the cross. And he laughed mystically, prophesying that the Lord should fill us with joy, who have been redeemed from corruption by the blood of the Lord. Isaac did everything but suffer, as was right, yielding the precedence in suffering to the Word. Furthermore, there is an intimation of the divinity of the Lord in His not being slain. For Jesus rose again after His burial, having suffered no harm, like Isaac released from sacrifice.

Καὶ ποῦ ἄρα ἦν ἡ θυρίς͵ δι΄ ἧς ὁ κύριος ἐδείκνυτο; ἡ σάρξ͵ δι΄ ἧς πεφανέρωται. Αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Ἰσαάκ͵ καὶ γὰρ ἔστιν ἑτέρως ἐκλαβεῖν͵ τύπος [ὅς] ἐστὶ τοῦ κυρίου͵ παῖς μὲν ὡς υἱός͵ καὶ γὰρ υἱὸς ἦν Ἀβραὰμ ὡς ὁ Χριστὸς τοῦ θεοῦ͵ ἱερεῖον δὲ ὡς ὁ κύριος. Ἀλλ΄ οὐ κεκάρπωται ὡς ὁ κύριος͵ μόνον ἐβάστασε τὰ ξύλα τῆς ἱερουργίας ὁ Ἰσαάκ͵ ὡς ὁ κύριος τὸ ξύλον. Ἐγέλα δὲ μυστικῶς͵ ἐμπλῆσαι ἡμᾶς προφητεύων χαρᾶς τὸν κύριον τοὺς αἵματι κυρίου ἐκ φθορᾶς λελυτρωμένους. Οὐκ ἔπαθεν δέ͵ οὐ μόνον εἰκότως ἄρα [ὁ Ἰσαὰκ] τὰ πρωτεῖα τοῦ πάθους παραχωρῶν τῷ λόγῳ͵ ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ κυρίου τὴν θειότητα αἰνίττεται μὴ σφαγείς· ἀνέστη γὰρ μετὰ τὴν κηδείαν ὁ Ἰησοῦς μὴ παθών͵ καθάπερ ἱερουργίας ἀφειμένος ὁ Ἰσαάκ.

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