Sophia Scriptura

Prophetic Extracts 26.4

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

Summary: God as consuming fire means a strong, irresistible power that can destroy.

Greek text · Stählin 3:144

»πῦρ« οὖν ὅταν λέγηται ὁ θεὸς »καταναλίσκον«, δύναμις ἰσχυρὰ καὶ ἀπροσάντητος, ᾗ μηδὲν ἀδύνατον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀπολέσαι δυνατόν.

English · Claude translation

When God, then, is called “a consuming fire,” he is a strong and irresistible power, to which nothing is impossible, but which can also destroy.

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Source
Stählin 3:144 · 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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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/4/).

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