Prophetic Extracts 9.3

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

Summary: A believer's illness may be God's correction for past sin, protection from future sin, or a permitted attack for his good or as an example to others.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:139

ὅταν οὖν πιστοῦ σῶμα νοσῇ, ἢ διʼ ἁμάρτημά τι προημαρτημένον ἐπιτιμῶντος τοῦ κυρίου, ἢ διὰ μέλλοντα προφυλαξαμένου, ἢ καὶ κατʼ ἐνέργειαν * *προσβολὴν ἔξωθεν γινομένην οὐ κωλύσαντος διά τι χρήσιμον [καὶ] αὐτῷ ἢ τοῖς πέλας παραδείγματος χάριν.

English · Claude translation

When, then, a believer's body is sick, it is either because the Lord is rebuking some previous sin, or guarding against future ones, or even not preventing an attack from outside, through the activity of …, for some benefit to him or to his neighbors as an example.

About this passage

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.
Topics: Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/3/).

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