Prophetic Extracts 52.1

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

Summary: The “heavens” are properly the Lord, then the highest angels, then the patriarchs, Moses, the prophets, and the apostles.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:151

διὰ τῶν πρωτοκτίστων ἀγγέλων ἐγένοντο εἰς »δόξαν θεοῦ«. καλοῦνται δὲ οὐρανοὶ κυρίως μὲν ὁ κύριος, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ οἱ πρωτόκτιστοι, μεθʼ οὓς καὶ οἱ ἅγιοι πρὸ νόμου ἄνθρωποι. ὡς οἱ πατριάρχαι, καὶ Μωυσῆς καὶ οἱ προφῆται, εἶτα καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι.

English · Claude translation

came about through the first-created angels for “the glory of God.” The heavens are properly the Lord, then also the first-created, and after them the holy men before the law, like the patriarchs, and Moses and the prophets, and then the apostles.

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Source: Stählin 3:151 · 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: Scripture and canon

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 52.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 52.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/1/).

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