Prophetic Extracts 30.1

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

Summary: The life of the true knower is free of every evil deed, word, and thought, as Crete is free of dangerous beasts.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:146

Τοῦ γνωστικοῦ μόνου, καθάπερ λέγουσι τὴν Κρήτην ἄγονον εἶναι θηρίων ὀλεθρίων, ὁ βίος καθαρὸς ἀπὸ παντὸς πονηροῦ ἔργου τε καὶ νοήματος καὶ λόγου, οὐδὲ ἐχθρὸν ἔχοντος τὸ παράπαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ φθόνου καὶ μίσους καὶ βλασφημίας πάσης καὶ διαβολῆς ἐκτὸς ὄντος.

English · Claude translation

Only of the one who knows, as they say Crete produces no deadly beasts, is the life pure from every evil deed, thought, and word; he has no enemy at all, and is beyond envy, hatred, every blasphemy, and slander.

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Source: Stählin 3:146 · 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. 30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/30/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/30/1/).

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