Socrates deduces, from Euthyphro’s explanation, that he is saying that the pious is loved because it is pious, but not pious because it is being loved and that the “God-loved” is loved by the Gods simply because it is being loved and not being loved because it is God-loved. He concludes that, if the pious and the God-Loved are the same, then, because the pious is loved because it is pious, the God-loved would also be loved because it is God-loved, meaning the pious is actually being loved because it Is God-Loved, not because it is pious.
Socrates is again referring to this idea of “action,” or something becoming something because it is affected by something else. He is saying that piety cannot be loved by the God’s simply for being what it is, but that it becomes God-loved because it is, in fact, affected by being loved by the