Prophetic Extracts 29.2

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

Summary: Those who teach others need broad learning.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:146

τοῖς δὲ καὶ τὴν προστασίαν ἐπανῃρημένοις τοῦ ὠφελεῖν εὔχρηστος ἡ πολυπειρία πρὸς τὸ μὴ διαλαθεῖν τι τῶν δοκούντων παρʼ ἄλλοις ἀναγκαίως καὶ πολυμαθῶς ἐπεγνῶσθαι.

English · Claude translation

And for those who have undertaken the charge of helping others, wide experience is useful, so that nothing of what others are thought to know necessarily and learnedly escapes them.

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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: Church office

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/2/).

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