Sarah
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Wife of Abraham, allegorized by Clement as sovereign wisdom.
Sarah was once barren, the wife of Abraham.
"Be not much with a strange woman"), and Sarah as "my sovereignty.
For this reason Abraham too, when Sarah was jealous of Hagar for outshining her — choosing, as it were, only the useful part of worldly philosophy — said, "Behold, the handmaid is in your hands;
The Rights of War and Peace
Wife of Abraham involved in the illustrative example of lawful concealment.
In the same manner, Abraham called Sarah, his sister, an appellation used familiarly at that time to denote a near relation by blood, concealing the circumstance of her being his wife.
Adversus Marcionem
Matriarch whose name change by the Creator is cited as precedent for Christ's renaming of Peter.
He changes Peter's name too from Simon — because the Creator too reformed the names of Abraham and Sarah and Hoshea, calling this one Jesus, to those adding syllables.
De Carnis Resurrectione
Sarah, whose burial by Abraham illustrates that 'the dead' means the body.
For asking of the sons of Heth a place for the burial of Sarah, "Give me, then," he says, "a possession of a sepulchre among you, and I will bury my dead" — the flesh, namely.