Sophia Scriptura

Prophetic Extracts 56.5

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

Summary: the sun rules the day, as the moon the night.

Greek text · Stählin 3:153

εἰς ἀρχὴν γὰρ ἡμερῶν τέτακται, καθάπερ ἡ σελήνη εἰς τὸ ἄρχειν νυκτός·

English · Claude translation

for it is appointed to rule the days, as the moon to rule the night.

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Source
Stählin 3:153 · 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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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/5/).

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