Prophetic Extracts 50.3

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

Summary: Barrenness occurs when no soul is introduced to make the seed conceive.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:151

* * καὶ αἱ στεῖραι διὰ τοῦτό εἰσι στεῖραι, ὡς ἂν μὴ εἰσκρινομένης τῆς ψυχῆς τὴν τοῦ σπέρματος καταβολὴν συναγούσης εἰς κατοχὴν συλλήψεως καὶ γεννήσεως.

English · Claude translation

… and barren women are barren for this reason, that the soul is not introduced to bind the sown seed into the holding of conception and birth.

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Source: Stählin 3:151 · 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. 50.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/50/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 50.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/50/3/).

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