Prophetic Extracts 43.1

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

Summary: “A people I did not know served me” means the Gentiles, not known through the covenant.

BothGreekEnglish

Greek text · Stählin 3:149

»Λαὸς ὃν οὐκ ἔγνων, ἐδούλευσέν μοι·« κατὰ διαθήκην οὐκ ἔγνων.

English · Claude translation

“A people whom I did not know served me”: did not know according to the covenant.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:149 · 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

Ps 18:43 (17:44 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): οὐκ ἔγνων. ἐδούλευσέν → οὐκ ἔγνων, ἐδούλευσέν.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 43.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/43/1/).

The SBL abbreviation for this work has not been checked yet.

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 43.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/43/1/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage