Prophetic Extracts 55.1

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

Summary: The stars, governed by angels, do not cause events but signify past, present, and future.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:152

Οἱ ἀστέρες, σώματα πνευματικά, κεκοινωνηκότα ἀγγέλοις ἐφεστῶσι διοικούμενα, οὐκ αἴτια γενέσεως, σημαντικὰ δὲ τῶν γινομένων τε καὶ ἐσομένων καὶ γενομένων ἐπί τε τροπῶν ἀέρων ἐπί τε εὐφορίας καὶ ἀκαρπίας ἐπί τε λοιμῶν καὶ φλογμῶν ἐπί τε τῶν ἀνθρώπων.

English · Claude translation

The stars, spiritual bodies which share with the angels set over them and are governed by them, are not causes of birth, but signs of what is happening, will happen, and has happened, concerning changes of the air, fruitfulness and barrenness, plagues and fevers, and concerning human beings.

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Source

Stählin 3:152 · 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).

Extrabiblical texts

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 70.2 (Excerpts from Theodotus) · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

Compare Exc. 70.2.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 55.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/55/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 55.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/55/1/).

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