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Prophetic Extracts 16.2

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

Summary: God sends prophets and apostles as saviors of people.

Greek text · Stählin 3:141

καὶ ὀρθῶς ἡ προφητεία φησίν· »καὶ ἀποστελῶ ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἄνθρωπον ὃς σώσει αὐτούς.« αὐτὸς οὖν ἐκπέμπει ποτὲ μὲν προφήτας, ποτὲ δὲ ἀποστόλους, σωτῆρας τῶν ἀνθρώπων.

English · Claude translation

And the prophecy rightly says, “And I will send them a man who will save them.” So he himself sends forth, at one time prophets, at another apostles, saviors of human beings.

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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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Isa 19:20 (LXX).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): ποτὲ μὲν προφήτας. ποτὲ δὲ → ποτὲ μὲν προφήτας, ποτὲ δὲ.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/2/).

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