Prophetic Extracts 23.1

Summary: As Christ spoke and healed through his body, he did so through the prophets, and now through the apostles and teachers;

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Greek text · Stählin 3:143

Ὥσπερ διὰ τοῦ σώματος ὁ σωτὴρ ἐλάλει καὶ ἰᾶτο, οὕτως καὶ πρότερον μὲν διὰ τῶν προφητῶν, νῦν δὲ διὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν διδασκάλων·

Just as the Savior spoke and healed through the body, so too formerly through the prophets, and now through the apostles and teachers;

Source: Stählin 3:143 · 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).
Topics: Church office

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/1/).