Prophetic Extracts 9.1

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

Summary: God mixes fear with his goodness for our benefit, like a physician or a father.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:139

Ὁ θεὸς καὶ τὸν φόβον τῇ ἀγαθότητι συνέμιξεν διʼ ἀγαθότητα. τὸ γὰρ συμφέρον ἑκάστῳ τοῦτο ἤδη παρέχει, ὡς ἰατρὸς ἀρρωστοῦντι, ὡς πατὴρ ἀτακτοῦντι τῷ παιδί.

English · Claude translation

God has mixed fear with goodness, out of goodness. For he at once provides what is advantageous to each, as a physician to the sick, as a father to his unruly child.

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Source

Stählin 3:139 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.8.64 (The Instructor) · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/1/).

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