Prophetic Extracts 23.1

Summary: As Christ spoke and healed through his body, he did so through the prophets, and now through the apostles and teachers;

BothGreekEnglish

Greek text · Stählin 3:143

Ὥσπερ διὰ τοῦ σώματος ὁ σωτὴρ ἐλάλει καὶ ἰᾶτο, οὕτως καὶ πρότερον μὲν διὰ τῶν προφητῶν, νῦν δὲ διὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν διδασκάλων·

Just as the Savior spoke and healed through the body, so too formerly through the prophets, and now through the apostles and teachers;

Source: Stählin 3:143 · 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.
Topics: Church office

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/1/).

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

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/1/).