Prophetic Extracts 57.2

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

Summary: God rests on each one's knowledge of him, and knowledge makes the knower eternal.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:153–154

ἕκαστος γὰρ κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν προκοπὴν οἰκείαν ἔχει τὴν περὶ θεοῦ γνῶσιν, ἐφʼ ᾗ γνώσει ἀναπαύεται ὁ θεός, ἀιδίων γενομένων διὰ τῆς γνώσεως τῶν ἐγνωκότων.

English · Claude translation

For each, according to his own advancement, has his own knowledge of God, on which knowledge God rests, those who know becoming eternal through their knowledge.

About this passage

Source: Stählin 3:153–154 · 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: Eschatology

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Digital text corrected (elision mark missing): ἐφ ᾗ γνώσει → ἐφʼ ᾗ γνώσει.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/2/).

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