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Prophetic Extracts 18.1

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

Summary: God's power creates, gives growth, saves each believer suitably, and governs seasons and elements.

Greek text · Stählin 3:141

Ὅρα δὲ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ θεοῦ, οὐ μόνον ἐπʼ ἀνθρώπων μὴ ὄντας εἰς τὸ εἶναι παράγων καὶ τοὺς γενομένους αὔξων καθʼ ἡλικίας προκοπήν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς πιστεύοντας σῴζων κατὰ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἑκάστῳ· ἤδη δὲ μεταβάλλει καὶ ὥρας καὶ καιροὺς καὶ καρποὺς καὶ στοιχεῖα.

English · Claude translation

See the power of God, not only in bringing human beings who were not into being and increasing those who have come to be in the growth of age, but also in saving those who believe, according to what is proper to each; and he changes seasons, times, fruits, and elements.

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Source
Stählin 3:141 · 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).
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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/18/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/18/1/).

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