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Prophetic Extracts 40.1

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

Summary: God's judgment is good: it separates believers from unbelievers, prevents worse judgment, and disciplines.

Greek text · Stählin 3:148–149

Καθάπερ ἀγαθοῦ ἀπορροίᾳ ἀγαθύνονται, οὕτως καὶ κακοῦ κακοῦνται. καλὴ ἡ κρίσις τοῦ θεοῦ, ἥ τε διάκρισις ἡ τῶν πιστῶν ἀπὸ τῶν ἀπίστων ἥ τε πρόκρισις ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ μείζονι περιπεσεῖν κρίσει ἥ τε κρίσις παίδευσις οὖσα.

English · Claude translation

As they are made good by an emanation of the good, so they are made evil by an emanation of evil. The judgment of God is good: the separation of the faithful from the unfaithful, the prior judgment to prevent falling into a greater judgment, and judgment that is discipline.

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Source
Stählin 3:148–149 · 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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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 40.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/40/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 40.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/40/1/).

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