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Prophetic Extracts 12.8

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

Summary: An emptied soul left empty invites the unclean spirit back,

Greek text · Stählin 3:140

»ἐπάνεισι γὰρ εἰς τὸν κεκαθαρμένον οἶκον καὶ κενόν«, ἐὰν μηδὲν τῶν σωτηρίων ἐμβληθῇ, τὸ προενοικῆσαν ἀκάθαρτον πνεῦμα.

English · Claude translation

“For there returns to the swept and empty house,” if nothing saving is put into it, the unclean spirit that lived there before,

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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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Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusion is Matt 12:43–45 (Luke 11:24–26).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/8/).

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Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/8/).

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