Logion 22

22. Jesus saw infants that were suckled. He said unto his disciples, "These infants that are suckled are like those who enter the kingdom."
They said unto him, "If we then become children, would we thus enter the kingdom?"
Jesus said unto them, "When ye make the two one, and when you make the inside like unto the outside and the outside like unto the inside, and that which is above like unto that which is below, and when ye make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male no longer be male nor the female female; and when ye fashion eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will ye enter into the kingdom."
Mk 9:42-48: "And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones … and if thy hand offend thee, cut it off … and if thy foot offend thee, cut it off … and if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out " …
II Clem. 12:2-6: For the Lord himself, being asked by a certain person, When his kingdom should come? answered, "When two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within; and the male with the female, neither male nor female. Now "two are one," when we speak the truth to each other, and there is (without hypocrisy) one soul in two bodies: "and that which is without as that which is within;" — He means this: he calls the soul that which is within, and the body that which is without. As therefore thy body appears, so let thy soul be seen by its good works. "And the male with the female neither male nor female;" — He means this; he calls our anger the male, our concupiscence the female. When therefore a man is come to such a pass that he is subject neither to the one nor the other of these (both of which, through the prevalence of custom, and an evil education, cloud and darken the reason,) but rather, having dispelled the mist arising from them, and being full of shame, shall by repentance have united both his soul and spirit in the obedience of reason; then, as Paul says, "there is in us neither male nor female" (Cf. I Cor 11:11,12).
Cf. Mk 10:6, 8:
"…But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female … so then they are no more twain, but one flesh…."

Clement probably has interpreted these words well. The natural man resides in both male and female aspects. Note however that Jesus says nothing about the Greek concepts of soul, spirit, or even reason as the overall ruling force.

A harmonization with logion 114, if authentic, suggests that we must, as Clement has done, interpret the contrast between male and female as figurative.

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