# Στρώματα 4.22.135

Clement of Alexandria, Στρώματα, Book 4, Chapter 22. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/clement-of-alexandria/text-2/4.22.135

Ὁ δὴ συνίων καὶ διορατικὸς οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ γνωστικός. ἔργον δὲ αὐτοῦ οὐχ ἡ ἀποχὴ τῶν κακῶν (ἐπιβάθρα γὰρ αὕτη προκοπῆς μεγίστης), οὐδὲ μὴν ποιεῖν τι ἀγαθὸν ἤτοι διὰ φόβον (γέγραπται γάρ· ποῦ φύγω καὶ ποῦ κρυβήσομαι ἀπὸ προσώπου σου; ἐὰν ἀναβῶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, σὺ ἐκεῖ εἶ· ἐὰν ἀπέλθω εἰς τὰ ἔσχατα τῆς θαλάσσης, ἐκεῖ ἡ δεξιά σου· ἐὰν καταβῶ εἰς ἀβύσσους, ἐκεῖ τὸ πνεῦμά σου), ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ δἰ ἐλπίδα τιμῆς ἐπηγγελμένης (εἴρηται γάρ· ἰδοὺ κύριος καὶ ὁ μισθὸς αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, ἀποδοῦναι ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ ἃ ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ εἶδε καὶ οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσεν καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἀνέβη, ἃ ἡτοίμασεν ὁ θεὸς τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν), μόνη δ’ ἡ δἰ ἀγάπην εὐποιία ἡ δἰ αὐτὸ τὸ καλὸν αἱρετὴ τῷ γνωστικῷ.

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Clement of Alexandria, Στρώματα, ed. Otto Stählin. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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