Prophetic Extracts 56.2
Summary: Hermogenes said Christ laid aside his body in the sun; Clement's teacher Pantaenus taught that prophecy often uses one tense for another, as here.
Greek text · Stählin 3:152–153
ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν φασι τὸ σῶμα τοῦ κυρίου ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ αὐτὸν ἀποτίθεσθαι, ὡς Ἑρμογένης, σῶμα δὲ λέγουσιν οἳ μὲν τὸ σκῆνος αὐτοῦ, οἳ δὲ τὴν τῶν πιστῶν ἐκκλησίαν, ὁ Πάνταινος δὲ * ἡμῶν ἔλεγεν »ἀορίστως τὴν προφητείαν ἐκφέρειν τὰς λέξεις ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον καὶ τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἀντὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος χρῆσθαι χρόνῳ καὶ πάλιν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἀντὶ τοῦ παρῳχηκότος«, ὃ καὶ νῦν φαίνεται.
English · Claude translation
Some, then, say that the Lord lays aside his body in the sun, as Hermogenes does; and by body some mean his tabernacle, others the church of the faithful. But Pantaenus, our …, used to say that “prophecy utters its words indefinitely for the most part, and uses the present tense instead of the future, and again the present instead of the past,” which is the case here too.
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- Hermogenes was a teacher opposed by Tertullian. Pantaenus was Clement's teacher at Alexandria; a word describing him (probably “teacher”) is missing in the manuscript.
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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/2/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/2/).
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