Prophetic Extracts 37.2

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

Summary: The beautiful, contemplated above by wisdom, is practiced here through self-control and righteousness, as angelic service in the body.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:148

τὸ γὰρ καλὸν ὡς ἐκεῖ σοφίᾳ θεωρητὸν καὶ νοητόν, ἐνταῦθα σωφροσύνῃ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ διὰ πίστεως πρακτόν, ἐν σαρκὶ μελετήσαντος ἀγγελικὴν ὑπουργίαν, ὥσπερ ἐν τόπῳ διαφανεῖ καὶ ἀμιάντῳ τῷ σώματι τὸν νοῦν καθιερώσαντος.

English · Claude translation

For the beautiful, as there it is contemplated and understood by wisdom, here is practiced by self-control and righteousness through faith, by one who has practiced angelic service in the flesh, as one who has consecrated his mind in the body as in a transparent and undefiled place.

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Source: Stählin 3:148 · 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. 37.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/37/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 37.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/37/2/).

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