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Prophetic Extracts 52.2

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

Summary: The firmament is God himself, unchangeable, as Ps 18 calls the Lord his firmament.

Greek text · Stählin 3:151

»Ποίησιν δὲ χειρῶν αὐτοῦ ἀναγγέλλει τὸ στερέωμα.« στερέωμα λέγει τὸν θεὸν τὸν ἀπαθῆ καὶ ἀμετάβλητον, ὡς καὶ ἀλλαχῇ ὁ αὐτὸς Δαβίδ· »ἀγαπήσω σε, κύριε, ἡ ἰσχύς μου, κύριος στερέωμά μου καὶ καταφυγή μου.«

English · Claude translation

“The firmament proclaims the work of his hands.” He calls God the firmament, impassible and unchangeable, as the same David says elsewhere: “I will love you, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my firmament and my refuge.”

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Source
Stählin 3:151 · 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 19:1 (18:2 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 18:1 (17:2 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 18:2 (17:3 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 52.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 52.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/2/).

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