Prophetic Extracts 12.7

Clement of Alexandria · Prophetic Extracts · ca. 200 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: but filled with God; an emptied soul is neither good nor evil, which is nothing.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:140

ἀλλὰ καὶ πληρῶσαι θεοῦ. οὔτε γὰρ ἔτι κακόν, ἐπεὶ πέπαυται, οὔτε ἤδη ἀγαθόν. ἐπεὶ μηδέπω εἴληφεν· τὸ δὲ μήτε ἀγαθὸν μήτε κακὸν οὐδέν ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

but also fill it with God. For it is no longer evil, since that has ceased, nor yet good, since it has not yet received it; and what is neither good nor evil is nothing.

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Source: Stählin 3:140 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 3, Stromata Buch VII und VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae, Quis dives salvetur, Fragmente, GCS 17 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 3 (GCS 17, 1909), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1909); made independently of existing English translations.
Topics: Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/7/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/7/).

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