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Prophetic Extracts 1.3

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

Summary: Since “power” has many senses, the song calls on every power, then the sun and moon, to bless the Lord.

Greek text · Stählin 3:137

εἰκότως οὖν ποικίλως τῆς δυνάμεως ὀνομαζομένης ἐπάγει Δανιήλ· »εὐλογείτω πᾶσα δύναμις τὸν κύριον.« εἶτα ἐφεξῆς· »εὐλογεῖτε, ἥλιος καὶ σελήνη, τὸν κύριον.«

English · Claude translation

Fittingly, then, since the word “power” is used in various senses, Daniel adds, “Let every power bless the Lord”; then next, “Bless the Lord, sun and moon.”

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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).
Extrabiblical texts
  • Pr Azar 39–40 (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. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/3/).

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