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Prophetic Extracts 15.2

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

Summary: saying such cases need prayer. The believer is forgiven by the Lord; the one who has attained knowledge no longer sins and so forgives himself the rest.

Greek text · Stählin 3:141

»τὰ τοιαῦτα εὐχῇ κατορθοῦται.« ὁ μὲν πιστεύσας ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτημάτων ἔλαβεν παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου, ὁ δʼ ἐν γνώσει γενόμενος ἅτε μηκέτι ἁμαρτάνων παρʼ ἑαυτοῦ τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν λοιπῶν κομίζεται.

English · Claude translation

“Such things are accomplished by prayer.” The one who has believed has received forgiveness of sins from the Lord; but the one who has come into knowledge, since he no longer sins, obtains from himself the forgiveness of the rest.

About this passage

Source
Stählin 3:141 · 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
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.
Scripture
Topics
Prayer, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • The saying is a form of Mark 9:29. “Knowledge” (γνῶσις) is Clement's term for mature Christian understanding.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/15/2/).

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Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/15/2/).

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