Prophetic Extracts 4.2

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

Summary: Believers choose the Son as their head; the Lord who saves Judah is the Savior, the Son, who is the Beginning.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:138

ᾧ γάρ τις πιστεύει, τοῦτον αἱρεῖται. πιστεύει δέ τις τῷ υἱῷ, ὅς ἐστιν ἀρχή. διὸ καὶ προ[σ]εῖπεν· »τοὺς δὲ υἱοὺς Ἰούδα ἐλεήσω καὶ σώσω ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ αὐτῶν«, σωτὴρ δὲ ὁ σῴζων υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ. οὗτος ἄρα ἡ ἀρχή.

English · Claude translation

For whoever one believes in, him one chooses. And one believes in the Son, who is the Beginning. That is why he also said earlier, “But I will have mercy on the sons of Judah and will save them by the Lord their God”; and the Savior who saves is the Son of God. He, then, is the Beginning.

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Source

Stählin 3:138 · 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).

Scripture

Hos 1:7 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is Hos 1:7. The bracketed letter in the Greek is the editor's deletion.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): πιστεύει. τοῦτον αἱρεῖται → πιστεύει, τοῦτον αἱρεῖται.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/4/2/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/4/2/).

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