Prophetic Extracts 57.5

Summary: Those who become angels are taught for a thousand years, then teach others, rising by periods to higher rank.

Greek text · Stählin 3:154

οἱ γὰρ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων εἰς ἀγγέλους μεταστάντες χίλια ἔτη μαθητεύονται ὑπὸ τῶν ἀγγέλων, εἰς τελειότητα ἀποκαθιστάμενοι· εἶτα οἱ μὲν διδάξαντες μετατίθενται εἰς ἀρχαγγελικὴν ἐξουσίαν, οἱ μαθόντες δὲ τοὺς ἐξ ἀνθρώπων αὖθις μεθισταμένους εἰς ἀγγέλους μαθητεύουσιν, ἔπειτα οὕτως περιόδοις ῥηταῖς ἀποκαθίστανται τῇ οἰκείᾳ τοῦ σώματος ἀγγελοθεσίᾳ.

English · Claude translation

For those who pass from human beings into angels are taught by the angels for a thousand years, being restored to perfection; then those who taught are transferred to archangelic authority, and those who learned in turn teach those who pass again from human beings into angels; then in this way, in fixed periods, they are restored to the proper angelic state of the body.

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Stählin 3:154 · 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

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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. 57.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/5/).

Greek text · Stählin 3:154

English · Claude translation

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