Prophetic Extracts 27.2

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

Summary: They thought composing and teaching different gifts and left writing to others.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:144

τάχα δὲ οὐδὲ τῆς αὐτῆς φύσεως κατόρθωμα τὸ συντακτικὸν καὶ διδασκαλικὸν εἶδος εἶναι πεπεισμένοι τοῖς εἰς τοῦτο πεφυκόσι συνεχώρουν.

English · Claude translation

And perhaps, persuaded that the gift of composing and the gift of teaching are not of the same nature, they left writing to those naturally suited to it.

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Source: Stählin 3:144 · 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: Scripture and canon

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/2/).

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