Prophetic Extracts 29.1

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

Summary: Knowledge of Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and the soul is necessary for salvation.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:146

Ὄντων γὰρ εὐχρήστων καὶ ἀναγκαίων εἰς σωτηρίαν, οἷον πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἡμετέρας ψυχῆς. δεῖ πάντως καὶ τὸν περὶ αὐτῶν λόγον, ὅς ἐστι γνωστικός, εὔχρηστον ὁμοῦ καὶ ἀναγκαῖον τυγχάνειν.

English · Claude translation

For since there are things useful and necessary for salvation, such as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and also our own soul, the account of them, which is knowledge, must certainly be both useful and necessary.

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Source: Stählin 3:146 · 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: Trinity

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/1/).

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