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Prophetic Extracts 20.4

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

Summary: Love rules the willing, fear the unwilling; but the fear that instructs leads to Christ and saves.

Greek text · Stählin 3:142

ἀγάπη γὰρ ἑκουσίων ἄρχει, ἀκόντων δὲ ὁ φόβος, οὗτος ὁ φαῦλος· ὃ δὲ εἰς ἀγαθὸν παιδαγωγῶν εἰς Χριστὸν ἄγει καὶ ἔστι σωτήριος.

English · Claude translation

For love rules the willing, and fear the unwilling, this being the bad kind of fear; but the fear that instructs for good leads to Christ and is saving.

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Source
Stählin 3:142 · 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
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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.
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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/4/).

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