Sophia Scriptura

Prophetic Extracts 35.4

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

Summary: Blessed are those who wake from this sleep to the light and truth.

Greek text · Stählin 3:148

μακάριοι δὲ οἱ ἐξ ὕπνου τοῦδε καὶ τῆς παραφροσύνης ἀνεγειρόμενοι καὶ ἀναβλέψαντες τὸ φῶς καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν.

English · Claude translation

But blessed are those who rise from this sleep and madness and look up to the light and the truth.

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Source
Stählin 3:148 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (breathing and accent missing): οἱ ἐξ ύπνου τοῦδε → οἱ ἐξ ὕπνου τοῦδε.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/4/).

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