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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
Keywords
eunuchs
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire
Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars
Text
Clement is quoting Julius Cassian’s work On Eunuchism.
Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 3.13: Let no one say that since we have appendages such that some of us are designed female and some male, some for receiving and some for implanting, God designed us to be this way. For if this were God’s plan, toward which we are striving, he would not have blessed eunuchs: the prophet (Isaiah 56:3-5) would not have said ‘they are not fruitless trees’ taking an analogy from the tree for the man who by deliberate choice emasculates himself from ideas of this sort.
Stevenson, Walter. “Eunuchs and early Christianity.” In: Shaun Tougher (ed.). Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, London: Duckworth 2002, 123-142.
