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Prophetic Extracts 12.9

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

Summary: with seven others; so the soul emptied of evil must be filled with God, and then the seal of baptism guards it for God.

Greek text · Stählin 3:140

συμπαραλαμβάνον ἄλλα ἑπτὰ ἀκάθαρτα πνεύματα. διὸ κενώσαντας τῶν κακῶν δεῖ πληρῶσαι τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θεοῦ, ὅπερ ἐστὶν οἰκητήριον ἐπιλελεγμένον. πληρωθέντων γὰρ τῶν κενῶν, τότε ἡ σφραγὶς ἐπακολουθεῖ. ἵνα φυλάσσηται τῷ θεῷ τὸ ἅγιον.

English · Claude translation

bringing with it seven other unclean spirits. That is why, having emptied the soul of evils, we must fill it with the good God, which is the chosen dwelling. For when what was empty is filled, then the seal follows, so that what is holy may be kept for God.

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Source
Stählin 3:140 · 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
Text
As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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.
Compare
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 8 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Printed there under the wrong title “Excerpts of Theodotus”, and incomplete (it breaks off in ch. 63).
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Topics
Baptism, Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/9/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/9/).

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