Prophetic Extracts 14.2

Summary: Fasting empties the soul of matter and makes body and soul ready for God's word.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:140

ἄλλως τε κενοῖ τῆς ὕλης τὴν ψυχὴν ἡ νηστεία καὶ καθαρὰν καὶ κούφην σὺν καὶ τῷ σώματι παρίστησι τοῖς θείοις λόγοις.

Besides, fasting empties the soul of matter and presents it, together with the body, pure and light to the divine words.

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).
Topics: Fasting

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/2/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/2/).