Prophetic Extracts 6.2

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

Summary: They were pure leaders through whose signs the righteous passed through matter and out of it.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:138

διυπηρέτουν καθαροὶ στρατηγοὶ ἄμφω, διʼ ὧν ἐπιστεύθη τὰ σημεῖα, ἵνα δὴ ὁ δίκαιος ἐκ τῆς ὕλης γένηται, διʼ αὐτῆς ὁδεύσας τὰ πρῶτα.

English · Claude translation

both served as pure commanders, through whom the signs were believed, so that the righteous man might come out of matter, having first journeyed through it.

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Source: Stählin 3:138 · 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: Baptism

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/6/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/6/2/).

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