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Prophetic Extracts 31.2

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

Summary: except to correct the wounded by the word, sweet and stinging like honey.

Greek text · Stählin 3:146

ὅτι μὴ τῷ λόγῳ παιδεύων τοὺς ἡλκωμένους τὴν καρδίαν. καθάπερ μέλιτι σωτηρίῳ, γλυκεῖ τε ὄντι καὶ δηκτικῷ. ὥστε παντὸς μᾶλλον ὁ γνωστικὸς τὸ πρέπον ἂν μετὰ τοῦ κατὰ λόγον φυλάσσοι.

English · Claude translation

except by instructing with the word those wounded in heart, as with saving honey, which is both sweet and stinging. So above all the one who knows would keep what is fitting together with what is reasonable.

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Source
Stählin 3:146 · 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).
Topics
Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/31/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/31/2/).

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