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Prophetic Extracts 42.1

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

Summary: “With the holy you will be holy” means God is glorified through our knowledge of him.

Greek text · Stählin 3:149

»Μετὰ ὁσίου ὁσιωθήσῃ.« κατὰ αἶνον ὁσίων δεδόξασται τὸ ὄνομά σου, κατʼ ἐπίγνωσιν ἡμῶν δοξαζομένου τοῦ θεοῦ [κατά τε τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν κατά τε τὴν κληρονομίαν]. οὕτω καὶ τὸ »ζῇ κύριος« καὶ τὸ »ἀνέστη κύριος«.

English · Claude translation

“With the holy you will be holy.” Your name has been glorified according to the praise of the holy, God being glorified according to our knowledge. So too with “The Lord lives” and “The Lord has risen.”

About this passage

Source
Stählin 3:149 · 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.
Scripture
  • Ps 18:25 (17:26 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 18:46 (17:47 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Ps 18:25 (17:26 LXX); “The Lord lives” is Ps 18:46 (17:47 LXX). The bracketed words in the Greek, repeated from 44.1, are the editor's deletion.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/42/1/).

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Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/42/1/).

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