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Prophetic Extracts 57.1

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

Summary: The first-created angels are the “thrones,” because God rests in them, as he does in believers.

Greek text · Stählin 3:153

Εἰσὶν οὖν κατὰ τὸν ἀπόστολον οἱ ἐν τῇ ἄκρᾳ ἀποκαταστάσει πρωτόκτιστοι· »θρόνοι« δʼ ἂν εἶεν, καίτοι δυνάμεις ὄντες, οἱ πρωτόκτιστοι διὰ τὸ ἀναπαύεσθαι ἐν αὐτοῖς τὸν θεόν, ὡς καὶ ἐν τοῖς πιστεύουσιν.

English · Claude translation

According to the apostle, then, the first-created are those in the highest restoration; and the first-created, though they are powers, would be “thrones” because God rests in them, as also in those who believe.

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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
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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. 57.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/1/).

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