Prophetic Extracts 2.1

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

Summary: The song's God who looks on the depths agrees with Enoch's vision of all matter.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:137

»Εὐλογημένος εἶ ὁ βλέπων ἀβύσσους, καθήμενος ἐπὶ Χερουβίμ«, ὁ Δανιὴλ λέγει, ὁμοδοξῶν τῷ Ἐνὼχ τῷ εἰρηκότι· »καὶ εἶδον τὰς ὕλας πάσας.«

English · Claude translation

“Blessed are you who look upon the depths, seated upon the Cherubim,” Daniel says, agreeing with Enoch, who said, “And I saw all the kinds of matter.”

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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 32 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men) · quotation, high confidence
1 En. 19.3 (1 Enoch) · quotation, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

The first quotation is from the Song of the Three Young Men (Pr Azar 32). The Enoch quotation is close to 1 En. 19.3.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/1/).

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