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Prophetic Extracts 9.2

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

Summary: Scripture approves the rod; the Lord and apostles lived in fear and toil.

Greek text · Stählin 3:139

»ὁ γὰρ φειδόμενος τῆς βακτηρίας αὐτοῦ μισεῖ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ.« καὶ ὁ κύριος δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι αὐτοῦ ἐν φόβῳ καὶ πόνοις ἀνεστράφησαν.

English · Claude translation

“For he who spares his rod hates his son.” And the Lord and his apostles lived in fear and labors.

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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.
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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/2/).

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