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Prophetic Extracts 1.2

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

Summary: Scripture counts the heavens and the waters among the pure powers, as Genesis also shows.

Greek text · Stählin 3:137

εἶτα· »εὐλογεῖτε, ὕδατα καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐπάνω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τὸν κύριον.« οὕτως ἐπὶ δυνάμεων τάσσουσιν αἱ γραφαὶ καθαρῶν τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ τὰ ὕδατα, ὡς καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ γενέσει δηλοῦται.

English · Claude translation

Then: “Bless the Lord, you waters and all that are above the heaven.” So the Scriptures rank the heavens and the waters among pure powers, as is also shown in Genesis.

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Source
Stählin 3:137 · 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).
Scripture
  • Gen 1:7 · allusion, medium confidence
Extrabiblical texts
  • Pr Azar 38 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/2/).

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