Prophetic Extracts 53.1

Summary: The “speech” is the Lord, who is also called “day.”

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Greek text · Stählin 3:151

οὕτως καὶ ἡ ἡμέρα. ῥῆμα δὲ ὁ κύριος, καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς δὲ ἡμέρα πολλαχῇ εἴρηται.

so too is day. And speech is the Lord, and he too is called day in many ways.

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: Christology

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 53.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 53.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/1/).