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Prophetic Extracts 24.1

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

Summary: Caesar stands for the temporary ruler of this world, whose image is the old, earthy man.

Greek text · Stählin 3:143

Ὅτε χοϊκοὶ ἦμεν, Καίσαρος ἦμεν. Καῖσαρ δέ ἐστιν ὁ πρόσκαιρος ἄρχων, οὗ καὶ εἰκὼν ἡ χοϊκὴ ὁ παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος, εἰς ὃν ἐπαλινδρόμησεν.

English · Claude translation

When we were earthy, we belonged to Caesar. Caesar is the temporary ruler, whose image is also the earthy one, the old man, to whom he had returned.

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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).
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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/1/).

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