# Prophetic Extracts - Author: [Clement of Alexandria](https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/authors/clement-of-alexandria/) - Latin title: *Eclogae propheticae* - Date: ca. 200 (approximate) - Source: 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, from the original text; each passage below gives the model and date - Work page: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/ - Passages: 166 ## Prophetic Extracts 1.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The three young men in the furnace call on the heavens and the angels to bless the Lord. ### Greek text Οἱ ἀμφὶ τὸν Σεδράχ, Μισάκ, Ἀβδεναγὼ ἐν τῇ καμίνῳ τοῦ πυρὸς ὑμνοῦντες τὸν θεὸν λέγουσιν· »εὐλογεῖτε, οἱ οὐρανοί, τὸν κύριον· ὑμνεῖτε καὶ ὑπερυψοῦτε αὐτὸν εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας.« εἶτα· »εὐλογεῖτε, ἄγγελοι, τὸν κύριον.« ### English translation (Claude) Those with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the furnace of fire, singing to God, say: “Bless the Lord, you heavens; sing to him and exalt him forever.” Then: “Bless the Lord, you angels.” ### Extrabiblical texts - Pr Azar 36–37 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - This work is a set of notes by Clement on passages of Scripture, mostly the prophets. The quotations are from the Song of the Three Young Men (Greek Daniel 3), which is outside the Protestant canon. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 1.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 1.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Scripture counts the heavens and the waters among the pure powers, as Genesis also shows. ### Greek text εἶτα· »εὐλογεῖτε, ὕδατα καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐπάνω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τὸν κύριον.« οὕτως ἐπὶ δυνάμεων τάσσουσιν αἱ γραφαὶ καθαρῶν τοὺς οὐρανοὺς καὶ τὰ ὕδατα, ὡς καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ γενέσει δηλοῦται. ### English translation (Claude) Then: “Bless the Lord, you waters and all that are above the heaven.” So the Scriptures rank the heavens and the waters among pure powers, as is also shown in Genesis. ### Scripture references - Gen 1:7: allusion, medium confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Pr Azar 38 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 1.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Since “power” has many senses, the song calls on every power, then the sun and moon, to bless the Lord. ### Greek text εἰκότως οὖν ποικίλως τῆς δυνάμεως ὀνομαζομένης ἐπάγει Δανιήλ· »εὐλογείτω πᾶσα δύναμις τὸν κύριον.« εἶτα ἐφεξῆς· »εὐλογεῖτε, ἥλιος καὶ σελήνη, τὸν κύριον.« ### English translation (Claude) Fittingly, then, since the word “power” is used in various senses, Daniel adds, “Let every power bless the Lord”; then next, “Bless the Lord, sun and moon.” ### Extrabiblical texts - Pr Azar 39–40 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 1.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The song calls on the stars and all who worship God to bless him. ### Greek text καί· »εὐλογεῖτε, ἄστρα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, τὸν κύριον· εὐλογεῖτε, πάντες οἱ σεβόμενοι κύριον, τὸν θεὸν τῶν θεῶν· ὑμνεῖτε καὶ ἐξομολογεῖσθε, ὅτι εἰς πάντας τοὺς αἰῶνας τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ.« ### English translation (Claude) And: “Bless the Lord, stars of heaven; bless, all who worship the Lord, the God of gods; sing and give thanks, for his mercy is forever.” ### Extrabiblical texts - Pr Azar 41, 68 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 1.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/5/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: A note that these words are in Daniel. ### Greek text [ἐν τῷ Δανιὴλ γέγραπται τῶν τριῶν παίδων ἐν τῇ καμίνῳ ὑμνούντων.] ### English translation (Claude) [It is written in Daniel, when the three children were singing in the furnace.] ### Translation notes - The whole sentence is in the editor's square brackets, as a later addition to be deleted. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/1/5/). ## Prophetic Extracts 2.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The song's God who looks on the depths agrees with Enoch's vision of all matter. ### Greek text »Εὐλογημένος εἶ ὁ βλέπων ἀβύσσους, καθήμενος ἐπὶ Χερουβίμ«, ὁ Δανιὴλ λέγει, ὁμοδοξῶν τῷ Ἐνὼχ τῷ εἰρηκότι· »καὶ εἶδον τὰς ὕλας πάσας.« ### English translation (Claude) “Blessed are you who look upon the depths, seated upon the Cherubim,” Daniel says, agreeing with Enoch, who said, “And I saw all the kinds of matter.” ### Extrabiblical texts - Pr Azar 32 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men): quotation, high confidence - 1 En. 19.3 (1 Enoch): quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The first quotation is from the Song of the Three Young Men (Pr Azar 32). The Enoch quotation is close to 1 En. 19.3. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 2.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The abyss is boundless in itself but limited by ### Greek text ἄβυσσος γὰρ τὸ ἀπεράτωτον κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν ὑπόστασιν, περαιούμενον δὲ τῇ ### English translation (Claude) For the abyss is what is boundless in its own substance, but bounded by the ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 2.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 2.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's power; the “depths” are the material substances from which all kinds of things arise. ### Greek text δυνάμει τοῦ θεοῦ. αἱ τοίνυν οὐσίαι ὑλικαί. ἀφʼ ὧν τὰ ἐπὶ μέρους γένη καὶ τὰ τούτων εἴδη γίνεται. ἄβυσσοι εἴρηνται· ἐπεὶ μόνον τὸ ὕδωρ οὐκ ἂν εἶπεν ἄβυσσον. καίτοι καὶ ὕδωρ ἄβυσσος ἢ ὕλη ἀλληγορεῖται. ### English translation (Claude) power of God. Material substances, then, from which the particular genera and their species come into being, are called depths; since he would not have called water alone an abyss. And yet water too is allegorized as abyss, or matter. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 3.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/3/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:137 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Heaven and earth in Gen 1:1 mean heavenly and earthly things. ### Greek text »Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν«. τὰ γήινα καὶ τὰ οὐράνια. ### English translation (Claude) “In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth”: the earthly things and the heavenly. ### Scripture references - Gen 1:1: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 3.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/3/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 3.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/3/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:137–138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Hosea's “the land will commit prostitution” shows that “earth” can mean people. ### Greek text ὅτι δὲ τοῦτο ἀληθές, εἶπεν ὁ κύριος πρὸς Ὠσηέ· »βάδιζε, λαβὲ σεαυτῷ γυναῖκα πορνείας καὶ τέκνα πορνείας, διότι ἐκπορνεύουσα ἐκπορνεύσει ἡ γῆ ἀπὸ ὄπισθεν τοῦ κυρίου.« ### English translation (Claude) That this is true the Lord said to Hosea: “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of prostitution, for the land will surely commit prostitution, departing from the Lord.” ### Scripture references - Hos 1:2: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/3/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 3.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/3/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “Earth” there means earthly-minded people. ### Greek text οὐ γὰρ τὸ στοιχεῖον λέγει, ἀλλὰ τοὺς ἐπὶ τῷ στοιχείῳ, τοὺς γηγενὲς φρόνημα ἔχοντας. ### English translation (Claude) For he does not mean the element, but those on the element, those who have an earthborn mind. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 3.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/3/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 4.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/4/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Hosea's prophecy that Judah and Israel will appoint “one head” shows that the Son is the Beginning. ### Greek text Ὅτι δὲ ἀρχὴ ὁ υἱός, Ὠσηὲ διδάσκει σαφῶς· »καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῷ τόπῳ, οὗ ἐρρέθη αὐτοῖς ›οὐ λαός μου ὑμεῖς‹, κληθήσονται καὶ αὐτοὶ υἱοὶ θεοῦ ζῶντος. καὶ συναχθήσονται οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰούδα καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, καὶ θήσονται ἑαυτοῖς ἀρχὴν μίαν καὶ ἀναβήσονται ἐκ τῆς γῆς, ὅτι μεγάλη ἡμέρα τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.« ### English translation (Claude) That the Son is the Beginning, Hosea teaches clearly: “And in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they too will be called sons of the living God. And the sons of Judah and the sons of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one head (beginning) and will go up from the land, for great is the day of Israel.” ### Scripture references - Hos 1:10 (2:1 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Hos 1:11 (2:2 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The Greek ἀρχή means both “beginning” and “head, rule”; the argument depends on this. The quotation is Hos 1:10–11 (2:1–2 LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 4.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/4/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 4.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/4/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Believers choose the Son as their head; the Lord who saves Judah is the Savior, the Son, who is the Beginning. ### Greek text ᾧ γάρ τις πιστεύει, τοῦτον αἱρεῖται. πιστεύει δέ τις τῷ υἱῷ, ὅς ἐστιν ἀρχή. διὸ καὶ προ[σ]εῖπεν· »τοὺς δὲ υἱοὺς Ἰούδα ἐλεήσω καὶ σώσω ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ αὐτῶν«, σωτὴρ δὲ ὁ σῴζων υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ. οὗτος ἄρα ἡ ἀρχή. ### English translation (Claude) For whoever one believes in, him one chooses. And one believes in the Son, who is the Beginning. That is why he also said earlier, “But I will have mercy on the sons of Judah and will save them by the Lord their God”; and the Savior who saves is the Son of God. He, then, is the Beginning. ### Scripture references - Hos 1:7: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Hos 1:7. The bracketed letter in the Greek is the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/4/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 5.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/5/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Through Hosea the Spirit calls himself our instructor and calls for the trumpet. ### Greek text Διʼ Ὠσηὲ τὸ πνεῦμα »ἐγὼ δὲ παιδευτὴς ὑμῶν« φησί· »σαλπίσατε σάλπιγγι ἐπὶ τοὺς βουνοὺς κυρίου, ἠχήσατε ἐπὶ τῶν ὑψηλῶν.« ### English translation (Claude) Through Hosea the Spirit says, “But I am your instructor”; “Blow the trumpet on the hills of the Lord, sound the alarm on the heights.” ### Scripture references - Hos 5:2: quotation, high confidence - Hos 5:8: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotations are Hos 5:2 and Hos 5:8 (LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 5.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/5/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 5.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/5/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Baptism, the sign of regeneration, is an escape from the rushing stream of matter through Christ's teaching. ### Greek text καὶ μή τι αὐτὸ τὸ βάπτισμα ἀναγεννήσεως ὑπάρχον σημεῖον τῆς ὕλης ἐστὶν ἔκβασις διὰ τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος διδασκαλίας, μεγάλου καὶ σφοδροῦ ῥεύματος ἀεὶ φερομένου καὶ παραφέροντος ἡμᾶς. ### English translation (Claude) And is not baptism itself, being a sign of regeneration, a way out of matter through the Savior's teaching, matter which is a great and violent stream always rushing on and sweeping us along? ### Scripture references - Titus 3:5: echo, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 5.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/5/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 5.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/5/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Lord leads us out of disorder into shadowless light. ### Greek text ἐξάγων οὖν τῆς ἀταξίας ἡμᾶς ὁ κύριος φωτίζει, εἰς τὸ φῶς ἄγων τὸ ἄσκιον καὶ οὐκέτι ὑλικόν. ### English translation (Claude) So the Lord, leading us out of disorder, enlightens us, leading us into the light that has no shadow and is no longer material. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 5.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/5/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 6.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/6/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Two prophets divided the sea and the river of matter by God's power. ### Greek text Τοῦτον τὸν ποταμὸν τῆς ὕλης καὶ τὴν θάλασσαν διέκοψαν καὶ διέστησαν δυνάμει κυρίου προφῆται δύο, περατουμένης τῆς ὕλης καθʼ ἑκάτερον διάστημα ὕδατος βουλήσει τοῦ θεοῦ· ### English translation (Claude) This river of matter and the sea two prophets cut and divided by the power of the Lord, matter being bounded at each separation of the water by God's will: ### Scripture references - Exod 14:21: allusion, high confidence - Josh 3:16: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The two prophets are Moses (the Red Sea, Exod 14) and Joshua (the Jordan, Josh 3). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 6.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/6/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 6.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/6/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: They were pure leaders through whose signs the righteous passed through matter and out of it. ### Greek text διυπηρέτουν καθαροὶ στρατηγοὶ ἄμφω, διʼ ὧν ἐπιστεύθη τὰ σημεῖα, ἵνα δὴ ὁ δίκαιος ἐκ τῆς ὕλης γένηται, διʼ αὐτῆς ὁδεύσας τὰ πρῶτα. ### English translation (Claude) 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. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 6.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/6/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 6.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/6/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: One of them, Joshua, bore the name of Jesus. ### Greek text θατέρῳ μέν γε τῶν στρατηγῶν καὶ τοὔνομα τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐπεβέβλητο. ### English translation (Claude) Indeed, one of the two commanders also bore the name of our Savior. ### Translation notes - Joshua and Jesus are the same name in Greek (Ἰησοῦς). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 6.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/6/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 7.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/7/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Rebirth is by water and spirit, as was the first creation. ### Greek text Αὐτίκα διʼ »ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος« ἡ ἀναγέννησις, καθάπερ καὶ ἡ πᾶσα γένεσις. ### English translation (Claude) Thus regeneration is through “water and spirit,” as all generation is too. ### Scripture references - John 3:5: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 7.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/7/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 7.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/7/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Savior was baptized, though he needed no cleansing, to sanctify all water for those reborn, so that body and soul are cleansed. ### Greek text »πνεῦμα γὰρ θεοῦ ἐπεφέρετο τῇ ἀβύσσῳ.« καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὁ σωτὴρ ἐβαπτίσατο μὴ χρῄζων αὐτός, ἵνα τοῖς ἀναγεννωμένοις τὸ πᾶν ὕδωρ ἁγιάσῃ. ταύτῃ τοι οὐ μόνον τὸ σῶμα, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν καθαιρόμεθα. ### English translation (Claude) “For the Spirit of God was borne over the abyss.” And for this reason the Savior was baptized, not needing it himself, so that he might sanctify all water for those being regenerated. In this way we are cleansed not only in body but also in soul. ### Scripture references - Gen 1:2: quotation, high confidence - Matt 3:13: allusion, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Ign. Eph. 18.2 (To the Ephesians): echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is a form of Gen 1:2. Compare Ign. Eph. 18.2. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/7/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 7.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/7/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:138 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Baptism sanctifies the invisible soul too, as the driving out of unclean spirits shows. ### Greek text σημεῖον γοῦν τοῦ καὶ τὰ ἀόρατα ἡμῶν ἁγιάζεσθαι τὸ καὶ πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα συμπεπλεγμένα τῇ ψυχῇ διυλίζεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆς γενέσεως τῆς καινῆς τε καὶ πνευματικῆς. ### English translation (Claude) A sign, at any rate, that our invisible parts too are sanctified is that unclean spirits intertwined with the soul are strained out by the new and spiritual birth. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 7.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/7/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 8.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/8/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:138–139 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Since baptism by water and Spirit protects against a twofold fire, there must be both intelligible and sensible water. ### Greek text »Ὕδωρ ἐπάνω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ«· ἐπεὶ τὸ βάπτισμα γίνεται διʼ »ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος«, ἀλεξητήριον ὂν πυρὸς τοῦ δισσοῦ, τοῦ τε τῶν ἀοράτων ἁπτομένου καὶ τοῦ τῶν ὁρατῶν, ἀνάγκη καὶ τοῦ ὕδατος τὸ μέν τι νοητόν, τὸ δὲ αἰσθητὸν ὑπάρχειν, ἀλεξητήριον τῆς διπλόης τοῦ πυρός· ### English translation (Claude) “Water above the heaven”: since baptism is through “water and spirit,” being a defense against the twofold fire, that which touches invisible things and that which touches visible ones, water too must be partly intelligible and partly sensible, a defense against the doubleness of the fire. ### Scripture references - Gen 1:7: allusion, high confidence - John 3:5: quotation, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 81.2 (Excerpts from Theodotus): echo, high confidence ### Translation notes - Compare Exc. 81.2, which argues the same. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 8.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/8/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 8.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/8/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:139 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Earthly water washes the body; heavenly water, the Holy Spirit, cleanses the invisible soul. ### Greek text καὶ τὸ μὲν ἐπίγειον ὕδωρ τὸ σῶμα ἀπορρύπτει, τὸ δὲ ἐπουράνιον ὕδωρ διὰ τὸ εἶναι νοητὸν καὶ ἀόρατον πνεῦμα ἀλληγορεῖται ἅγιον, τῶν ἀοράτων καθαρτικόν, οἷον τοῦ πνεύματος ὕδωρ ὥσπερ ἐκεῖνο τοῦ σώματος. ### English translation (Claude) Earthly water cleans the body, but the heavenly water, because it is intelligible and invisible, is allegorized as the Holy Spirit, the cleanser of invisible things, as a water of the spirit, as the other is of the body. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/8/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 9.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:139 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God mixes fear with his goodness for our benefit, like a physician or a father. ### Greek text Ὁ θεὸς καὶ τὸν φόβον τῇ ἀγαθότητι συνέμιξεν διʼ ἀγαθότητα. τὸ γὰρ συμφέρον ἑκάστῳ τοῦτο ἤδη παρέχει, ὡς ἰατρὸς ἀρρωστοῦντι, ὡς πατὴρ ἀτακτοῦντι τῷ παιδί. ### English translation (Claude) God has mixed fear with goodness, out of goodness. For he at once provides what is advantageous to each, as a physician to the sick, as a father to his unruly child. ### Extrabiblical texts - Clement of Alexandria, Paed. 1.8.64 (The Instructor): echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 9.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:139 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Scripture approves the rod; the Lord and apostles lived in fear and toil. ### Greek text »ὁ γὰρ φειδόμενος τῆς βακτηρίας αὐτοῦ μισεῖ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ.« καὶ ὁ κύριος δὲ καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι αὐτοῦ ἐν φόβῳ καὶ πόνοις ἀνεστράφησαν. ### English translation (Claude) “For he who spares his rod hates his son.” And the Lord and his apostles lived in fear and labors. ### Scripture references - Prov 13:24: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 9.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:139 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: A believer's illness may be God's correction for past sin, protection from future sin, or a permitted attack for his good or as an example to others. ### Greek text ὅταν οὖν πιστοῦ σῶμα νοσῇ, ἢ διʼ ἁμάρτημά τι προημαρτημένον ἐπιτιμῶντος τοῦ κυρίου, ἢ διὰ μέλλοντα προφυλαξαμένου, ἢ καὶ κατʼ ἐνέργειαν * *προσβολὴν ἔξωθεν γινομένην οὐ κωλύσαντος διά τι χρήσιμον [καὶ] αὐτῷ ἢ τοῖς πέλας παραδείγματος χάριν. ### English translation (Claude) When, then, a believer's body is sick, it is either because the Lord is rebuking some previous sin, or guarding against future ones, or even not preventing an attack from outside, through the activity of …, for some benefit to him or to his neighbors as an example. ### Translation notes - The asterisks in the Greek mark a gap; the bracketed word is the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 9.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/9/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 10.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/10/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:139 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Those in frail bodies, like sailors in an old ship, pray constantly. ### Greek text Ἤδη δὲ οἱ ἐν σαθρῷ οἰκοῦντες σώματι καθάπερ ἐν πλοίῳ πλέοντες παλαιῷ οὐκ εἰσὶν ὕπτιοι, ἀλλʼ ἀεὶ εὔχονται ἀνατεταμένοι πρὸς τὸν θεόν. ### English translation (Claude) Those who dwell in a decaying body, as though sailing in an old ship, are not careless, but always pray with their hands raised to God. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/10/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 11.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/11/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:139 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The elders were distressed when they did not suffer bodily, fearing that unpunished sins would be punished all at once hereafter. ### Greek text Οἱ πρεσβύτεροι σφόδρα ἤχθοντο, εἰ μή τι πάσχοιεν κατὰ τὸ σῶμα ἑκάστοτε· ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ μή πως ἐνταῦθα οὐ κομιζόμενοι τὰ ἐπίχειρα τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων, ἃ πολλὰ τοῖς ἐν σαρκὶ κατʼ ἄγνοιαν παρακολουθεῖ, ἀθρόαν ἐκεῖ κομίσωνται τὴν δίκην, ὥστε ἐνθάδε θεραπεύεσθαι ἠξίουν. ### English translation (Claude) The elders were very distressed if they did not suffer something in the body from time to time; for they feared that, if they did not receive here the wages of their sins, which follow those in the flesh in great number through ignorance, they would receive their punishment all at once there; so they thought fit to be treated here. ### Translation notes - “The elders” (οἱ πρεσβύτεροι) are Clement's revered teachers of earlier generations. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 11.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/11/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 11.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/11/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:139 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Fear not bodily illness but sin, the sickness of the soul, since the body is grass and outward goods pass away. ### Greek text φοβητέον ἄρα οὐχὶ νόσον τὴν ἔξωθεν, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα, διʼ ἃ ἡ νόσος, καὶ νόσον ψυχῆς, οὐ σώματος, ὅτι »πᾶσα σὰρξ χόρτος«, τὰ δὲ σωματικὰ καὶ τὰ ἐκτὸς καλὰ »πρόσκαιρα, τὰ δὲ μὴ βλεπόμενα αἰώνια«. ### English translation (Claude) One must fear, then, not the illness from outside, but the sins because of which illness comes, and illness of soul, not of body; because “all flesh is grass,” and bodily and external goods are “temporary, but the things that are not seen are eternal.” ### Scripture references - Isa 40:6: quotation, high confidence - 1 Pet 1:24: quotation, medium confidence - 2 Cor 4:18: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotations are Isa 40:6 (1 Pet 1:24) and 2 Cor 4:18. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 11.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/11/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:139–140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: We already have a pledge of eternal goods and hope for the rest; the beatitudes are our provisions for the journey. ### Greek text Τὰ τῆς γνώσεως τὰ μὲν ἤδη μετέχομεν, τὰ δὲ διʼ ὧν ἔχομεν βεβαίως ἐλπίζομεν· οὔτε γὰρ πᾶν κεκομίσμεθα οὔτε παντὸς ὑστεροῦμεν, ἀλλʼ οἷον »ἀρραβῶνα« τῶν αἰωνίων ἀγαθῶν καὶ τοῦ πατρῴου πλούτου προσειλήφαμεν· τὰ δὲ ἐφόδια τῆς κυριακῆς ὁδοῦ οἱ μακαρισμοὶ τοῦ κυρίου. ### English translation (Claude) Of the things of knowledge, we already share in some, and others we hope for firmly through what we have; for we have neither received everything nor lack everything, but we have received as it were a “pledge” of the eternal good things and of the Father's wealth. And the provisions for the Lord's journey are the Lord's beatitudes. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 1:22: allusion, high confidence - Eph 1:14: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Seek God's kingdom and all else will be added. ### Greek text »ζητεῖτε«, γὰρ εἶπεν, »καὶ μεριμνᾶτε τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ταῦτα πάντα προστεθήσεται ὑμῖν· οἶδεν γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ ὧν χρείαν ἔχετε.« ### English translation (Claude) For he said, “Seek and be concerned for the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added to you; for the Father knows what you need.” ### Scripture references - Matt 6:33: quotation, high confidence - Matt 6:32: quotation, high confidence - Luke 12:31: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is a free combination of Matt 6:33, 32 (Luke 12:30–31). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ limits both our busyness and our anxiety: worry adds nothing to our life. ### Greek text οὕτως οὐ μόνον τὰς ἀσχολίας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς φροντίδας περιγράφει. »οὐ γὰρ τῇ ἡλικίᾳ«, φησίν, »ἐκ τοῦ φροντίζειν προσθεῖναί τι δύνασθε.« ### English translation (Claude) So he limits not only our occupations but also our worries. “For you cannot,” he says, “add anything to your stature by worrying.” ### Scripture references - Matt 6:27: quotation, high confidence - Luke 12:25: quotation, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God knows what we need; he wants us emptied of worldly cares and filled with care for him. ### Greek text ὁ γὰρ θεὸς οἶδεν σαφῶς τίνα μὲν ἡμῖν ἔχειν, τίνων δὲ ἀπορεῖν συμφέρει. κενώσαντας οὖν σφᾶς αὐτοὺς τῶν κοσμικῶν φροντίδων ἀξιοῖ πληροῦσθαι τῆς εἰς θεόν. ### English translation (Claude) For God knows clearly what it is good for us to have and what to lack. So he wants us, having emptied ourselves of worldly cares, to be filled with care for God. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/5/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: We groan to be clothed with incorruption. ### Greek text »ἡμεῖς γὰρ στενάζομεν ἐπενδύσασθαι ποθοῦντες« τὰ ἄφθαρτα, πρὶν ἐκδύσασθαι τὴν φθοράν. ### English translation (Claude) “For we groan, longing to put on” the incorruptible, before putting off corruption. ### Scripture references - 2 Cor 5:2: quotation, high confidence - 2 Cor 5:4: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/5/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/6/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As faith enters, unbelief leaves; so the soul must not only be emptied, ### Greek text ἐπιχεομένης γὰρ τῆς πίστεως ἀπορρεῖ ἡ ἀπιστία. ὁμοίως καὶ ἐπὶ γνώσεως καὶ δικαιοσύνης. οὐ χρὴ οὖν μόνον κενῶσαι τὴν ψυχήν. ### English translation (Claude) For when faith is poured in, unbelief flows out; likewise with knowledge and righteousness. So one must not only empty the soul, ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/6/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/7/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: but filled with God; an emptied soul is neither good nor evil, which is nothing. ### Greek text ἀλλὰ καὶ πληρῶσαι θεοῦ. οὔτε γὰρ ἔτι κακόν, ἐπεὶ πέπαυται, οὔτε ἤδη ἀγαθόν. ἐπεὶ μηδέπω εἴληφεν· τὸ δὲ μήτε ἀγαθὸν μήτε κακὸν οὐδέν ἐστιν. ### English translation (Claude) but also fill it with God. For it is no longer evil, since that has ceased, nor yet good, since it has not yet received it; and what is neither good nor evil is nothing. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/7/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.8 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/8/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: An emptied soul left empty invites the unclean spirit back, ### Greek text »ἐπάνεισι γὰρ εἰς τὸν κεκαθαρμένον οἶκον καὶ κενόν«, ἐὰν μηδὲν τῶν σωτηρίων ἐμβληθῇ, τὸ προενοικῆσαν ἀκάθαρτον πνεῦμα. ### English translation (Claude) “For there returns to the swept and empty house,” if nothing saving is put into it, the unclean spirit that lived there before, ### Scripture references - Matt 12:44: quotation, high confidence - Luke 11:25: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The allusion is Matt 12:43–45 (Luke 11:24–26). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/8/). ## Prophetic Extracts 12.9 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/9/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: with seven others; so the soul emptied of evil must be filled with God, and then the seal of baptism guards it for God. ### Greek text συμπαραλαμβάνον ἄλλα ἑπτὰ ἀκάθαρτα πνεύματα. διὸ κενώσαντας τῶν κακῶν δεῖ πληρῶσαι τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ θεοῦ, ὅπερ ἐστὶν οἰκητήριον ἐπιλελεγμένον. πληρωθέντων γὰρ τῶν κενῶν, τότε ἡ σφραγὶς ἐπακολουθεῖ. ἵνα φυλάσσηται τῷ θεῷ τὸ ἅγιον. ### English translation (Claude) bringing with it seven other unclean spirits. That is why, having emptied the soul of evils, we must fill it with the good God, which is the chosen dwelling. For when what was empty is filled, then the seal follows, so that what is holy may be kept for God. ### Scripture references - Matt 12:45: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/9/). ## Prophetic Extracts 13.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/13/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The two or three witnesses are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who witness and help us keep the commandments. ### Greek text »Πᾶν ῥῆμα ἵσταται ἐπὶ δύο καὶ τριῶν μαρτύρων«, ἐπὶ πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ἐφʼ ὧν μαρτύρων καὶ βοηθῶν αἱ ἐντολαὶ λεγόμεναι φυλάσσεσθαι ὀφείλουσιν. ### English translation (Claude) “Every word is established on two or three witnesses”: on the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; the commandments spoken must be kept with these as witnesses and helpers. ### Scripture references - Deut 19:15: quotation, high confidence - Matt 18:16: quotation, medium confidence - 2 Cor 13:1: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Deut 19:15 (Matt 18:16; 2 Cor 13:1). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/13/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 14.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Food does not make us righteous; fasting symbolizes dying to the world so as to live to God on divine food. ### Greek text Ἡ νηστεία ἀποχὴ τροφῆς ἐστι κατὰ τὸ σημαινόμενον, τροφὴ δὲ οὐδὲν δικαιοτέρους ἡμᾶς ἢ ἀδικωτέρους ἀπεργάζεται, κατὰ δὲ τὸ μυστικὸν δηλοῖ ὅτι ὥσπερ τοῖς καθʼ ἕνα ἐκ τροφῆς ἡ ζωή, ἡ δʼ ἀτροφία θανάτου σύμβολον, οὕτως καὶ ἡμᾶς τῶν κοσμικῶν νηστεύειν χρή. ἵνα τῷ κόσμῳ ἀποθάνωμεν καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο τροφῆς θείας μεταλαβόντες θεῷ ζήσωμεν. ### English translation (Claude) Fasting is abstinence from food according to its literal meaning, and food makes us neither more righteous nor less righteous; but according to its mystical meaning it shows that, just as for each person life comes from food and lack of food is a symbol of death, so we too must fast from worldly things, so that we may die to the world and after that, partaking of divine food, live to God. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 8:8: echo, high confidence - Gal 2:19: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 14.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 14.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Fasting empties the soul of matter and makes body and soul ready for God's word. ### Greek text ἄλλως τε κενοῖ τῆς ὕλης τὴν ψυχὴν ἡ νηστεία καὶ καθαρὰν καὶ κούφην σὺν καὶ τῷ σώματι παρίστησι τοῖς θείοις λόγοις. ### English translation (Claude) Besides, fasting empties the soul of matter and presents it, together with the body, pure and light to the divine words. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 14.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:140 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Worldly food is the old life of sin; divine food is faith, hope, patience, knowledge, peace, ### Greek text τροφὴ μὲν οὖν κοσμικὴ ὁ πρότερος βίος καὶ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα. τροφὴ δὲ θεϊκὴ πίστις, ἐλπίς, ὑπομονή, γνῶσις, εἰρήνη. ### English translation (Claude) The worldly food, then, is the former life and sins; the divine food is faith, hope, endurance, knowledge, peace, ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 14.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 14.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:140–141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: and self-control; blessed are those who hunger for righteousness, a hunger of the soul. ### Greek text σωφροσύνη. »μακάριοι γὰρ οἱ πεινῶντες καὶ διψῶντες τὴν δικαιοσύνην τοῦ θεοῦ· οὗτοι γὰρ καὶ ἐμπλησθήσονται.« ψυχὴ δέ, ἀλλʼ οὐ σῶμα τὴν ὄρεξιν ταύτην λαμβάνει. ### English translation (Claude) self-control. “For blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness of God; for they shall be filled.” And the soul, not the body, receives this appetite. ### Scripture references - Matt 5:6: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 15.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/15/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: When the apostles could not cast out a demon, Christ showed that prayer is stronger than faith, ### Greek text Τῆς πίστεως τὴν εὐχὴν ἰσχυροτέραν ἀπέφηνεν ὁ σωτὴρ τοῖς πιστοῖς ἀποστόλοις, ἐπί τινος δαιμονιῶντος, ὃν οὐκ ἴσχυσαν καθαρίσαι, εἰπών· ### English translation (Claude) The Savior showed the believing apostles that prayer is stronger than faith, in the case of a demoniac whom they had not been able to cleanse, saying, ### Scripture references - Mark 9:18: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/15/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 15.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/15/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: saying such cases need prayer. The believer is forgiven by the Lord; the one who has attained knowledge no longer sins and so forgives himself the rest. ### Greek text »τὰ τοιαῦτα εὐχῇ κατορθοῦται.« ὁ μὲν πιστεύσας ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτημάτων ἔλαβεν παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου, ὁ δʼ ἐν γνώσει γενόμενος ἅτε μηκέτι ἁμαρτάνων παρʼ ἑαυτοῦ τὴν ἄφεσιν τῶν λοιπῶν κομίζεται. ### English translation (Claude) “Such things are accomplished by prayer.” The one who has believed has received forgiveness of sins from the Lord; but the one who has come into knowledge, since he no longer sins, obtains from himself the forgiveness of the rest. ### Scripture references - Mark 9:29: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The saying is a form of Mark 9:29. “Knowledge” (γνῶσις) is Clement's term for mature Christian understanding. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/15/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 16.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God works through human beings in teaching as in healings and prophecies. ### Greek text Ὥσπερ αἱ θεραπεῖαι καὶ αἱ προφητεῖαι καὶ τὰ σημεῖα, οὕτως καὶ ἡ γνωστικὴ διδασκαλία διʼ ἀνθρώπων ἐνεργοῦντος τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπιτελεῖται· ὁ γὰρ θεὸς διʼ ἀνθρώπων τὴν δύναμιν ἐπιδείκνυται. ### English translation (Claude) Just as healings, prophecies, and signs, so too the teaching of knowledge is accomplished through human beings, God working in them; for God shows his power through human beings. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 16.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 16.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God sends prophets and apostles as saviors of people. ### Greek text καὶ ὀρθῶς ἡ προφητεία φησίν· »καὶ ἀποστελῶ ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἄνθρωπον ὃς σώσει αὐτούς.« αὐτὸς οὖν ἐκπέμπει ποτὲ μὲν προφήτας, ποτὲ δὲ ἀποστόλους, σωτῆρας τῶν ἀνθρώπων. ### English translation (Claude) And the prophecy rightly says, “And I will send them a man who will save them.” So he himself sends forth, at one time prophets, at another apostles, saviors of human beings. ### Scripture references - Isa 19:20: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Isa 19:20 (LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 16.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God is all-powerful, yet he chooses to beget and teach us through human beings. ### Greek text οὕτως θεὸς διʼ ἀνθρώπων εὐεργετεῖ· οὐχὶ γὰρ τὰ μὲν δύναται, τὰ δὲ οὐ δύναται ὁ θεός, οὐδὲ ἀσθενεῖ ποτε ἐν οὐδενί, ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ τὰ μὲν ἑκόντος, τὰ δὲ ἄκοντος αὐτοῦ γίνεται, καὶ τὰ μὲν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, τὰ δὲ ὑφʼ ἑτέρου, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐγέννησεν διʼ ἀνθρώπων καὶ ἐπαίδευσεν διʼ ἀνθρώπων. ### English translation (Claude) So God does good through human beings; for it is not that God can do some things and cannot do others, nor is he ever weak in anything, nor do some things happen with his will and others against it, some by him and others by another; but he has both begotten us through human beings and instructed us through human beings. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 16.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 17.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/17/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Against the preexistence of souls: we did not exist before God made us, or we would remember it. ### Greek text Ὁ θεὸς ἡμᾶς ἐποίησεν οὐ προόντας. ἐχρῆν γὰρ καὶ εἰδέναι ἡμᾶς ὅπου ἦμεν, εἰ προῆμεν, καὶ πῶς καὶ διὰ τί δεῦρο ἥκομεν· εἰ δʼ οὐ προῆμεν, τῆς γενέσεως μόνος αἴτιος ὁ θεός. ### English translation (Claude) God made us when we did not exist before. For if we had existed before, we would have had to know where we were, and how and why we came here; but if we did not exist before, God alone is the cause of our coming into being. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 17.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/17/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 17.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/17/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God, who made us from nothing, saves us by grace if we are fit; otherwise he lets us go to our end. ### Greek text ὡς οὖν οὐκ ὄντας ἐποίησεν, οὕτως καὶ γενομένους σῴζει τῇ ἰδίᾳ χάριτι, ἐὰν ἄξιοι καὶ ἐπιτήδειοι φανῶμεν, εἰ δὲ μή, παρήσει πρὸς τὸ οἰκεῖον τέλος· »καὶ γὰρ ζώντων ἐστὶ καὶ νεκρῶν κύριος.« ### English translation (Claude) As, then, he made us when we did not exist, so, once we have come to be, he saves us by his own grace, if we show ourselves worthy and fit; but if not, he will let us go to our own end. “For he is Lord of the living and the dead.” ### Scripture references - Rom 14:9: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 17.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/17/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 18.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/18/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:141 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's power creates, gives growth, saves each believer suitably, and governs seasons and elements. ### Greek text Ὅρα δὲ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ θεοῦ, οὐ μόνον ἐπʼ ἀνθρώπων μὴ ὄντας εἰς τὸ εἶναι παράγων καὶ τοὺς γενομένους αὔξων καθʼ ἡλικίας προκοπήν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς πιστεύοντας σῴζων κατὰ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἑκάστῳ· ἤδη δὲ μεταβάλλει καὶ ὥρας καὶ καιροὺς καὶ καρποὺς καὶ στοιχεῖα. ### English translation (Claude) See the power of God, not only in bringing human beings who were not into being and increasing those who have come to be in the growth of age, but also in saving those who believe, according to what is proper to each; and he changes seasons, times, fruits, and elements. ### Scripture references - Dan 2:21: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/18/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 18.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/18/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:141–142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The one God measures the beginning and end of all things. ### Greek text οὗτος γὰρ εἷς θεὸς ὁ καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τὸ τέλος τῶν γενομένων οἰκείως ἑκάστῳ μετρήσας. ### English translation (Claude) For this is the one God, who has measured both the beginning and the end of things that have come to be, fittingly for each. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/18/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 19.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/19/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: One who advances from faith and fear to knowledge calls God “Our Father,” not as a slave. ### Greek text Ἐκ πίστεως καὶ φόβου προκόψας εἰς γνῶσιν ἄνθρωπος οἶδεν εἰπεῖν »κύριε κύριε«. ἀλλʼ οὐχ ὡς ὁ δοῦλος· ἔμαθεν λέγειν »πάτερ ἡμῶν«. ### English translation (Claude) A man who has advanced from faith and fear to knowledge knows how to say “Lord, Lord,” but not as the slave does; he has learned to say “Our Father.” ### Scripture references - Matt 7:21: echo, medium confidence - Matt 6:9: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/19/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 19.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/19/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Freed from the spirit of slavery and adopted through love, he keeps the commandments out of love and cries “Abba, Father.” ### Greek text »τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς δουλείας τὸ εἰς φόβον« ἐλευθερώσας καὶ διʼ ἀγάπης προκόψας εἰς »υἱοθεσίαν«, αἰδούμενος ἤδη διʼ ἀγάπην ὃν ἐφοβεῖτο πρότερον· οὐ γὰρ ἔτι διὰ φόβον ἀπέχεται τῶν ἀφεκτέων, ἀλλὰ διʼ ἀγάπην ἔχεται τῶν ἐντολῶν. »αὐτό«, φησί, »τὸ πνεῦμα μαρτυρεῖ«, ὅταν λέγωμεν· »ἀββᾶ ὁ πατήρ.« ### English translation (Claude) Having freed himself from “the spirit of slavery leading to fear,” and advanced through love to “adoption,” he now reveres through love the one he feared before; for he no longer abstains from what should be avoided through fear, but holds to the commandments through love. “The Spirit himself,” he says, “bears witness,” when we say, “Abba, Father.” ### Scripture references - Rom 8:15: quotation, high confidence - Rom 8:16: quotation, high confidence - Gal 4:6: allusion, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 19.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/19/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 20.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Lord bought us with his blood from the old masters, our sins, through which evil powers ruled us. ### Greek text Ἀγοράζει δὲ ἡμᾶς κύριος »τιμίῳ αἵματι«, δεσποτῶν τῶν πάλαι τῶν πικρῶν ἀπαλλάσσων, τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν, διʼ ἃς »τὰ πνευματικὰ τῆς πονηρίας« ἐκυρίευσεν ἡμῶν. ### English translation (Claude) The Lord buys us “with precious blood,” freeing us from the bitter masters of old, the sins through which “the spiritual forces of wickedness” ruled over us. ### Scripture references - 1 Pet 1:19: quotation, high confidence - 1 Cor 6:20: echo, medium confidence - Eph 6:12: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 20.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 20.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: He leads us to the Father's freedom as sons, heirs, and friends. ### Greek text ἄγει οὖν εἰς ἐλευθερίαν τὴν τοῦ πατρός, συγκληρονόμους υἱοὺς καὶ φίλους. ### English translation (Claude) So he leads us into the freedom of the Father, as sons who are joint heirs and friends. ### Scripture references - Rom 8:17: echo, high confidence - John 15:15: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 20.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 20.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Those who do the Father's will are Christ's brothers; call no one on earth father, for the true Father is in heaven. ### Greek text »ἀδελφοί μου γάρ«, φησὶν ὁ κύριος, »καὶ συγκληρονόμοι οἱ ποιοῦντες τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός μου.« »μὴ καλέσητε οὖν ἑαυτοῖς πατέρα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς·« δεσπόται γὰρ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἐν δὲ οὐρανοῖς ὁ πατήρ, »ἐξ οὗ πᾶσα πατριὰ ἔν τε οὐρανοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.« ### English translation (Claude) “For my brothers,” says the Lord, “and joint heirs are those who do the will of my Father.” “So call no one on earth your father”; for there are masters on earth, but in heaven is the Father, “from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.” ### Scripture references - Matt 12:50: quotation, high confidence - Matt 23:9: quotation, high confidence - Eph 3:15: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotations are a form of Matt 12:50, Matt 23:9, and Eph 3:15. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 20.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Love rules the willing, fear the unwilling; but the fear that instructs leads to Christ and saves. ### Greek text ἀγάπη γὰρ ἑκουσίων ἄρχει, ἀκόντων δὲ ὁ φόβος, οὗτος ὁ φαῦλος· ὃ δὲ εἰς ἀγαθὸν παιδαγωγῶν εἰς Χριστὸν ἄγει καὶ ἔστι σωτήριος. ### English translation (Claude) For love rules the willing, and fear the unwilling, this being the bad kind of fear; but the fear that instructs for good leads to Christ and is saving. ### Scripture references - Gal 3:24: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 20.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 21.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/21/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: No thought of God is worthy of him, but we may think of him as unapproachable light, all-good, compassionate, impassible, and all-knowing. ### Greek text Εἰ δή τις νοεῖ θεόν (κατʼ ἀξίαν μὲν οὐδαμῶς, τίς γὰρ ἔννοια ἀξία θεοῦ; ἀλλʼ ὡς δυνατόν ἐστι), νοείτω μέγα καὶ ἀπερινόητον καὶ κάλλιστον »φῶς ἀπρόσιτον«, πᾶσαν δύναμιν ἀγαθήν, πᾶσαν ἀστείαν ἀρετὴν συγκεκληρωμένον, πάντων κηδόμενον, φιλοικτίρμον, ἀπαθές, ἀγαθόν, πάντα εἰδός, προγινῶσκον πάντα, εἰλικρινές, γλυκύ, λαμπρόν, ἀκήρατον. ### English translation (Claude) If anyone conceives of God (in no way worthily, for what conception is worthy of God? but as far as possible), let him conceive of him as a great, incomprehensible, and most beautiful “unapproachable light,” endowed with every good power, every fine virtue, caring for all, compassionate, impassible, good, knowing all things, foreknowing all things, pure, sweet, bright, undefiled. ### Scripture references - 1 Tim 6:16: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 21.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/21/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 22.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/22/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:142 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The soul moves itself, so God's grace asks for its willingness as its contribution to salvation. ### Greek text Ἐπεὶ ἐξ ἑαυτῆς κινεῖται ἡ ψυχή, ἡ χάρις ἡ τοῦ θεοῦ, ὃ ἔχει ἡ ψυχή, τὴν προθυμίαν, ἀπαιτεῖ παρʼ αὐτῆς, οἷον ἔρανον εἰς σωτηρίαν· βούλεται γὰρ τῆς ψυχῆς ἴδιον εἶναι τὸ ἀγαθόν, ὃ δίδωσιν αὐτῇ ὁ κύριος, οὐ γάρ ἐστιν ἀναίσθητος, ἵνα φέρηται ὡς σῶμα. ### English translation (Claude) Since the soul moves of itself, the grace of God asks from it what the soul has, its eagerness, as a contribution toward salvation; for he wants the good that the Lord gives it to be the soul's own, since it is not senseless, to be carried along like a body. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 22.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/22/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 22.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/22/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:142–143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: To have is to receive; to receive, one must desire; to keep it, one must practice. ### Greek text τὸ μὲν οὖν ἔχειν τοῦ λαβόντος, τὸ λαβεῖν δὲ τοῦ θελήσαντος καὶ ὀρεχθέντος, τὸ κρατεῖν δὲ ὃ ἔλαβεν τοῦ κρατεῖν μελετήσαντος καὶ δυναμένου. ### English translation (Claude) Having, then, belongs to the one who has received; receiving to the one who has willed and desired; and holding what one has received, to the one who has practiced holding and is able. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 22.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/22/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 22.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/22/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God gave the soul free choice: he shows the good, and the soul chooses and keeps it. ### Greek text διὰ τοῦτο [ἐπὶ] τῇ ψυχῇ ὁ θεὸς τὴν αἵρεσιν δέδωκεν, ἵνα αὐτὸς μὲν μηνύσῃ τὸ δέον, ἡ δὲ ἑλομένη δέξηται καὶ κατάσχῃ. ### English translation (Claude) That is why God has given the choice to the soul, so that he may point out what is needed, and it, having chosen, may receive and hold it fast. ### Translation notes - The bracketed word in the Greek is the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 22.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/22/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 23.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As Christ spoke and healed through his body, he did so through the prophets, and now through the apostles and teachers; ### Greek text Ὥσπερ διὰ τοῦ σώματος ὁ σωτὴρ ἐλάλει καὶ ἰᾶτο, οὕτως καὶ πρότερον μὲν διὰ τῶν προφητῶν, νῦν δὲ διὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν διδασκάλων· ### English translation (Claude) Just as the Savior spoke and healed through the body, so too formerly through the prophets, and now through the apostles and teachers; ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 23.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 23.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: the church serves Christ's work, as the humanity he assumed served the Father's will. ### Greek text ἡ ἐκκλησία γὰρ ὑπηρετεῖ τῇ τοῦ κυρίου ἐνεργείᾳ, ἔνθεν καὶ τότε ἄνθρωπον ἀνέλαβεν, ἵνα διʼ αὐτοῦ ὑπηρετήσῃ τῷ θελήματι τοῦ πατρός. ### English translation (Claude) for the church serves the Lord's working; hence at that time too he took on a man, so that through him he might serve the Father's will. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 23.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 23.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God always clothes himself in human beings to save humanity, once in the prophets, now in the church. ### Greek text καὶ πάντοτε ἄνθρωπον ὁ φιλάνθρωπος ἐνδύεται θεὸς εἰς τὴν ἀνθρώπων σωτηρίαν, πρότερον μὲν τοὺς προφήτας, νῦν δὲ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. τὸ γὰρ ὅμοιον τῷ ὁμοίῳ ἐξυπηρετεῖν κατάλληλον πρὸς τὴν ὁμοίαν σωτηρίαν. ### English translation (Claude) And always the God who loves mankind puts on a human being for the salvation of human beings, formerly the prophets, now the church. For it is fitting that like should serve like for a like salvation. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/23/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 24.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Caesar stands for the temporary ruler of this world, whose image is the old, earthy man. ### Greek text Ὅτε χοϊκοὶ ἦμεν, Καίσαρος ἦμεν. Καῖσαρ δέ ἐστιν ὁ πρόσκαιρος ἄρχων, οὗ καὶ εἰκὼν ἡ χοϊκὴ ὁ παλαιὸς ἄνθρωπος, εἰς ὃν ἐπαλινδρόμησεν. ### English translation (Claude) When we were earthy, we belonged to Caesar. Caesar is the temporary ruler, whose image is also the earthy one, the old man, to whom he had returned. ### Scripture references - Matt 22:21: allusion, high confidence - Eph 4:22: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 24.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 24.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: We render to Caesar the earthy image we bore, and to God what is God's; each passion is like a stamp on us. ### Greek text τούτῳ οὖν τὰ χοϊκὰ ἀποδοτέον, ἃ »πεφορέκαμεν ἐν τῇ εἰκόνι τοῦ χοϊκοῦ«, καὶ »τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τῷ θεῷ«· ἕκαστον γὰρ τῶν παθῶν ὥσπερ γράμμα καὶ χάραγμα ἡμῖν καὶ σημεῖον. ### English translation (Claude) To him, then, must be rendered the earthy things, which “we have borne in the image of the earthy,” and “the things of God to God”; for each of the passions is like a letter, stamp, and sign on us. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 15:49: quotation, high confidence - Matt 22:21: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 24.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 24.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Now the Lord stamps us with faith and other virtues, so that we bear the heavenly image. ### Greek text ἄλλο χάραγμα νῦν ὁ κύριος ἡμῖν καὶ ἄλλα ὀνόματα καὶ γράμματα ἐνσημαίνεται, πίστιν ἀντὶ ἀπιστίας, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. οὕτως ἀπὸ τῶν ὑλικῶν ἐπὶ τὰ πνευματικὰ μεταγόμεθα »φορέσαντες τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου«. ### English translation (Claude) Now the Lord impresses on us another stamp and other names and letters: faith instead of unbelief, and so on. So we are brought over from material things to spiritual, “having borne the image of the heavenly.” ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 15:49: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 24.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/24/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 25.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/25/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: John's baptism “with Spirit and fire” was not literal fire, though Heracleon reports that some branded the ears of the baptized; the winnowing image explains it. ### Greek text Ὁ Ἰωάννης φησίν, ὅτι »ἐγὼ μὲν ὑμᾶς ὕδατι βαπτίζω, ἔρχεται δέ μου [ὁ] ὀπίσω ὁ βαπτίζων ὑμᾶς ἐν πνεύματι καὶ πυρί.« πυρὶ δὲ οὐδένα ἐβάπτισεν· »ἔνιοι δέ«, ὥς φησιν Ἡρακλέων, »πυρὶ τὰ ὦτα τῶν σφραγιζομένων κατεσημήναντο«, οὕτως ἀκούσαντες τὸ ἀποστολικόν. »τὸ γὰρ πτύον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ διακαθᾶραι τὴν ἅλω. καὶ συνάξει τὸν σῖτον εἰς τὴν ἀποθήκην, τὸ δὲ ἄχυρον κατακαύσει πυρὶ ἀσβέστῳ.« ### English translation (Claude) John says, “I baptize you with water, but after me comes the one who baptizes you with the Spirit and fire.” But he baptized no one with fire. “Some,” as Heracleon says, “marked the ears of those being sealed with fire,” understanding the apostolic saying in this way. “For the winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor, and he will gather the wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” ### Scripture references - Matt 3:11: quotation, high confidence - Matt 3:12: quotation, high confidence - Luke 3:16: quotation, medium confidence - Luke 3:17: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Heracleon was a Valentinian commentator on John. The quotation is Matt 3:11–12 (Luke 3:16–17). The bracketed article in the Greek is the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 25.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/25/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 25.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/25/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:143 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As wind separates wheat from chaff, the Spirit separates the soul from what is material. ### Greek text πρόσκειται οὖν τῷ »διὰ πυρὸς« τὸ »διὰ πνεύματος«, ἐπειδὴ ὡς ὁ σῖτος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀχύρου διακρίνεται (τουτέστιν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑλικοῦ ἐνδύματος) διὰ πνεύματος καὶ τὸ ἄχυρον χωρίζεται διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος λικμώμενον, οὕτως τὸ πνεῦμα διαχωριστικὴν ἔχει δύναμιν ἐνεργειῶν ὑλικῶν. ### English translation (Claude) “Through the Spirit” is added to “through fire,” since, as the wheat is separated from the chaff (that is, from the material garment) through the wind, and the chaff is separated by being winnowed by the wind, so the Spirit has a power to separate material activities. ### Translation notes - πνεῦμα means both “wind” and “Spirit.” ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 25.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/25/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 25.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/25/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:143–144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The seeds of life are gathered like wheat; the material perishes when separated; the Spirit separates and the fire consumes. ### Greek text ἐπεὶ δὲ τὰ μὲν ἐξ ἀγεννήτου καὶ ἀφθάρτου γέγονεν, τὰ σπερματικὰ ζωῆς, συνάγεται ὡς ὁ πυρὸς καὶ ἀποτίθεται, τὸ δὲ ὑλικόν, μέχρι σύνεστι τῷ κρείττονι, μένει· ὅταν δὲ ἐκείνου χωρισθῇ, ἀπόλλυται· ἐν ἑτέρῳ γὰρ εἶχε τὸ εἶναι. τοῦτο γοῦν χωριστικὸν μὲν δυνάμει, τὸ πνεῦμα. ἀναλωτικὸν δὲ τὸ πῦρ, πῦρ δὲ τὸ ὑλικὸν νοητέον. ### English translation (Claude) And since some things have come from the unbegotten and incorruptible, the seeds of life, these are gathered like the wheat and stored; but the material remains as long as it is joined to the better; when it is separated from that, it perishes, for it had its being in another. What separates by its power, then, is the Spirit, and what consumes is the fire; and by fire, material fire is to be understood. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 25.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/25/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 25.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/25/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Spirit corresponds to the bodiless soul, fire to what is material; this fire is not evil but a good power that cleanses, which is why the prophets call it wise. ### Greek text ἀλλʼ ἐπεὶ μὲν τὸ σῳζόμενον σίτῳ ἔοικεν, τὸ δὲ περιπεφυκὸς τῇ ψυχῇ τῷ ἀχύρῳ. καὶ τὸ μὲν ἀσώματον, τὸ δὲ χωριζόμενον ὑλικόν ἐστιν. ἀντέθηκεν τῷ μὲν ἀσωμάτῳ τὸ πνεῦμα, λεπτὸν καὶ καθαρὸν σχεδὸν ὑπὲρ νοῦν. τῷ δὲ ὑλικῷ τὸ πῦρ, οὐ πονηρὸν οὐδὲ κακὸν ὑπάρχον, ἀλλʼ ἰσχυρὸν καὶ κακοῦ καθαρτικόν· ἀγαθὴ γὰρ δύναμις τὸ πῦρ νοεῖται καὶ ἰσχυρά. φθαρτικὴ τῶν χειρόνων καὶ σωστικὴ τῶν ἀμεινόνων. διὸ καὶ φρόνιμον λέγεται παρὰ τοῖς προφήταις τοῦτο τὸ πῦρ. ### English translation (Claude) But since what is saved is like wheat, and what has grown around the soul like chaff, and the one is bodiless while what is separated is material, he set the Spirit, fine and pure and almost beyond mind, against the bodiless, and fire against the material; fire that is not wicked or evil, but strong and cleansing of evil. For fire is understood as a good and strong power, destructive of the worse and preserving the better. That is why this fire is called “wise” by the prophets. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 25.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/25/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 26.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: When God is called a consuming fire, ### Greek text Οὕτως γοῦν καὶ ὅταν ὁ θεὸς λέγηται »πῦρ καταναλίσκον«, οὐ κακίας. ### English translation (Claude) So too when God is called “a consuming fire,” it must be understood as a name and symbol not of evil, ### Scripture references - Deut 4:24: quotation, high confidence - Heb 12:29: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 26.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: it signifies his power, not evil: as fire is the strongest element, God is almighty over all. ### Greek text ἀλλὰ δυνάμεως ὄνομα καὶ σύμβολον ἐκδεκτέον· ὡς γὰρ τὸ πῦρ ἰσχυρότατον τῶν στοιχείων καὶ πάντων κρατοῦν, οὕτω καὶ ὁ θεὸς παντοδύναμος καὶ παντοκράτωρ, ὁ δυνάμενος κρατῆσαι, κτίσαι, ποιῆσαι. τρέφειν, αὔξειν, σῴζειν, σώματος καὶ ψυχῆς ἐξουσίαν ἔχων. ὡς οὖν τῶν στοιχείων ὑπερέχει τὸ πῦρ. οὕτως θεῶν τε καὶ δυνάμεων καὶ ἀρχῶν ὁ παντοκράτωρ. ### English translation (Claude) but of power. For as fire is the strongest of the elements and masters all, so God too is almighty and ruler of all, able to master, create, make, nourish, increase, and save, having authority over body and soul. As fire, then, excels the elements, so the Almighty excels gods, powers, and principalities. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 26.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Fire has two powers, life-giving like the sun and destructive like earthly fire. ### Greek text διπλῆ τε ἡ δύναμις τοῦ πυρός, ἣ μὲν πρὸς δημιουργίαν καὶ πέπανσιν καρπῶν καὶ ζῴων γένεσιν καὶ τροφὴν ἐπιτήδειος, ἧς εἰκὼν ὁ ἥλιος, ἣ δὲ πρὸς ἀνάλωσιν καὶ φθοράν, ὡς τὸ πῦρ τὸ ἐπίγειον. ### English translation (Claude) And the power of fire is twofold: one suited to creation, to the ripening of fruits, and to the birth and nourishment of living things, whose image is the sun; the other to consuming and destruction, like earthly fire. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 26.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God as consuming fire means a strong, irresistible power that can destroy. ### Greek text »πῦρ« οὖν ὅταν λέγηται ὁ θεὸς »καταναλίσκον«, δύναμις ἰσχυρὰ καὶ ἀπροσάντητος, ᾗ μηδὲν ἀδύνατον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀπολέσαι δυνατόν. ### English translation (Claude) When God, then, is called “a consuming fire,” he is a strong and irresistible power, to which nothing is impossible, but which can also destroy. ### Scripture references - Heb 12:29: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 26.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/5/ - Source: Stählin 3:144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ's fire cleanses the holy; the heretics say it destroys the material, but Clement says it disciplines. ### Greek text περὶ τοιαύτης δυνάμεως καὶ ὁ σωτὴρ λέγει· »πῦρ ἦλθον βαλεῖν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν«, δηλονότι δύναμιν τῶν μὲν ἁγίων καθαρτικήν. τῶν δὲ ὑλικῶν, ὡς μὲν ἐκεῖνοί φασιν, ἀφανιστικήν, ὡς δὲ ἡμεῖς ἂν φαίημεν, παιδευτικήν. ἔχει δὲ καὶ φόβον τὸ πῦρ καὶ διάχυσιν τὸ φῶς. ### English translation (Claude) About such a power the Savior too says, “I came to cast fire on the earth,” meaning a power that cleanses the holy, but that, as they say, destroys the material, while, as we would say, it disciplines. And fire carries fear, and light gladness. ### Scripture references - Luke 12:49: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - “They” are the Valentinians; “we” is Clement. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/5/). ## Prophetic Extracts 27.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The earlier elders did not write, so as not to divert their care for teaching the tradition. ### Greek text Οὐκ ἔγραφον δὲ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι μήτε ἀπασχολεῖν βουλόμενοι τὴν διδασκαλικὴν τῆς παραδόσεως φροντίδα τῇ περὶ τὸ γράφειν ἄλλῃ φροντίδι, μηδὲ μὴν τὸν τοῦ προσκέπτεσθαι τὰ λεχθησόμενα καιρὸν καταναλίσκοντες εἰς γραφήν. ### English translation (Claude) The elders did not write, neither wishing to distract their care for teaching the tradition with the other care of writing, nor spending on writing the time for reflecting on what was to be said. ### Translation notes - This chapter is an important statement of Clement's view of written and oral tradition. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 27.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:144 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: They thought composing and teaching different gifts and left writing to others. ### Greek text τάχα δὲ οὐδὲ τῆς αὐτῆς φύσεως κατόρθωμα τὸ συντακτικὸν καὶ διδασκαλικὸν εἶδος εἶναι πεπεισμένοι τοῖς εἰς τοῦτο πεφυκόσι συνεχώρουν. ### English translation (Claude) And perhaps, persuaded that the gift of composing and the gift of teaching are not of the same nature, they left writing to those naturally suited to it. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 27.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:144–145 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Speech flows quickly; writing is tested by readers and preserves teaching for later generations. ### Greek text τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἀκωλύτως καὶ μετὰ ῥύμης φέρεται ῥεῦμα τοῦ λέγοντος, καί που τάχα καὶ συναρπάσαι δυνάμενον, τὸ δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων ἑκάστοτε βασανιζόμενον, ἀκριβοῦς τῆς ἐξετάσεως τυγχάνον, ἄκρας καὶ τῆς ἐπιμελείας ἀξιοῦται, καὶ ἔστιν οἷον εἰπεῖν ἔγγραφος διδασκαλίας βεβαίωσις, καὶ εἰς τοὺς ὀψιγόνους οὕτως διὰ τῆς συντάξεως παραπεμπομένης τῆς φωνῆς. ### English translation (Claude) For the speaker's stream flows unhindered and with force, and may perhaps even carry the hearer away; but writing, tested every time by its readers, receiving exact examination, is thought worthy of the highest care, and is, so to speak, the written confirmation of teaching, the voice being passed on in this way through composition to later generations. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 27.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:145 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The elders' deposit speaks through the writer for the readers' salvation. ### Greek text ἡ γὰρ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων παρακαταθήκη διὰ τῆς γραφῆς λαλοῦσα ὑπουργῷ χρῆται τῷ γράφοντι πρὸς τὴν παράδοσιν εἰς σωτηρίαν τῶν ἐντευξομένων. ### English translation (Claude) For the deposit of the elders, speaking through writing, uses the writer as a servant for handing on the tradition for the salvation of those who will read it. ### Scripture references - 1 Tim 6:20: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 27.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/5/ - Source: Stählin 3:145 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Like a magnet drawing only iron, books draw only readers who can understand them. ### Greek text καθάπερ οὖν ἡ μαγνῆτις λίθος τὴν ἄλλην ὕλην παραπεμπομένη μόνον ἐφέλκεται διʼ ἐπιτηδειότητα τὸν σίδηρον, οὕτως καὶ τὰ βιβλία πολλῶν ὄντων τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων τοὺς οἵους τε συνιέναι μόνους ἐπισπᾶται. ### English translation (Claude) Just as the magnet, passing over other material, attracts only iron because of its fitness, so books too, though they have many readers, draw only those able to understand. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/5/). ## Prophetic Extracts 27.6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/6/ - Source: Stählin 3:145 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The word of truth is folly or offense to many, but wisdom and power to a few. ### Greek text ὁ γὰρ τῆς ἀληθείας λόγος τοῖς μὲν »μωρία«, τοῖς δὲ »σκάνδαλον«, ὀλίγοις δὲ »σοφία« οὕτως καὶ »δύναμις« εὑρίσκεται »θεοῦ«· ### English translation (Claude) For the word of truth is found to be “foolishness” to some, “a stumbling block” to others, but to a few “wisdom” and so also “the power of God.” ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 1:23: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 1:24: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/6/). ## Prophetic Extracts 27.7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/7/ - Source: Stählin 3:145 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The mature Christian is not jealous of knowledge; out of love he may even share it with an unworthy but persistent inquirer. ### Greek text φθόνος δὲ ἀπείη γνωστικοῦ. διὰ τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ ζητεῖ πότερον χεῖρον, ἀναξίῳ δοῦναι ἢ ἀξίῳ μὴ παραδοῦναι. καὶ κινδυνεύει ὑπὸ πολλῆς τῆς ἀγάπης οὐ μόνον παντὶ τῷ προσήκοντι, ἀλλʼ ἔσθʼ ὅτε καὶ ἀναξίῳ λιπαρῶς δεομένῳ κοινωνήσειν, οὐ διὰ τὴν δέησιν (οὐ γὰρ φιλοδοξεῖ), ἀλλὰ διὰ τὴν ἐπιμονὴν τοῦ δεομένου μελετῶντος εἰς πίστιν διὰ πολλῆς τῆς δεήσεως. ### English translation (Claude) But let envy be far from the one who knows. That is why he asks which is worse, to give to the unworthy or not to hand on to the worthy. And through great love he runs the risk of sharing not only with everyone fit, but sometimes even with an unworthy person who begs earnestly, not because of the begging (for he does not love glory), but because of the perseverance of the one who asks, training himself for faith by much asking. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 27.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/27/7/). ## Prophetic Extracts 28.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/28/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:145 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As the sea and earth serve different people differently, so Scripture helps readers in different ways. ### Greek text Εἰσὶ δʼ οἳ λέγοντες εἶναι γνωστικοὶ τοῖς οἰκείοις φθονοῦσι μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖς ἐκτός. ὡς δὲ ἡ θάλασσα ἀνίεται πᾶσιν, ἀλλʼ ὃ μὲν νήχεται, ὃ δὲ ἐμπορεύεται, ὃ δὲ ἀγρεύει τοὺς ἰχθῦς, καὶ ὡς ἡ γῆ κοινή, ἀλλʼ ὃ μὲν ὁδεύει, ὃ δὲ ἀροῖ, θηρᾷ δὲ ἕτερος, καί τις ἄλλος μέταλλα ἐρευνᾷ, ὃ δὲ οἰκοδομεῖ, οὕτως καὶ τῆς γραφῆς ἀναγινωσκομένης ὃ μὲν εἰς πίστιν, ὃ δὲ εἰς ἦθος ὠφελεῖται, ἀφαιρεῖται δὲ ἄλλος δεισιδαιμονίαν διὰ τῆς ἐπιγνώσεως τῶν πραγμάτων· ### English translation (Claude) There are some who, calling themselves gnostics, envy their own people more than outsiders. But as the sea is open to all, and one swims, another trades, another catches fish; and as the earth is common, and one travels, another plows, another hunts, someone else searches for metals, another builds: so too, when Scripture is read, one is helped toward faith, another toward character, and another is rid of superstition through knowledge of reality. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 28.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/28/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 28.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/28/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:145 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The spiritual athlete trains in the teaching and defeats the opponents of true knowledge. ### Greek text ὁ δὲ ἀθλητής, γνωρίσας τὸ στάδιον τὸ Ὀλυμπιακόν, ἐπαποδύεται τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ καὶ ἀγωνίζεται καὶ νικηφόρος γίνεται, τοὺς ἀντιπάλους καὶ κατατρέχοντας τῆς γνωστικῆς ὁδοῦ παρακρουσάμενος καὶ καταγωνισάμενος. ### English translation (Claude) But the athlete, having come to know the Olympic stadium, strips for the teaching, contends, and becomes victorious, having outmaneuvered and defeated the opponents who assail the way of knowledge. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 28.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/28/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 28.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/28/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:145–146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Knowledge is needed for the soul's training and character; as there is no faith without instruction, there is no understanding without knowledge. ### Greek text ἀναγκαία γὰρ ἡ γνῶσις καὶ πρὸς ψυχῆς γυμνασίαν καὶ πρὸς σεμνότητα ἤθους, ἀξιεντρεπτοτέρους ποιοῦσα τοὺς πιστοὺς καὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀκριβεῖς θεατάς. ὡς γὰρ οὐκ ἔστι πιστεῦσαι ἄνευ κατηχήσεως, οὕτως οὐδὲ καταλαβέσθαι ἄνευ γνώσεως. ### English translation (Claude) For knowledge is necessary both for exercising the soul and for dignity of character, making the faithful more worthy of respect and exact observers of reality. For as it is not possible to believe without catechesis, so neither to comprehend without knowledge. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 28.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/28/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 29.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Knowledge of Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and the soul is necessary for salvation. ### Greek text Ὄντων γὰρ εὐχρήστων καὶ ἀναγκαίων εἰς σωτηρίαν, οἷον πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἡμετέρας ψυχῆς. δεῖ πάντως καὶ τὸν περὶ αὐτῶν λόγον, ὅς ἐστι γνωστικός, εὔχρηστον ὁμοῦ καὶ ἀναγκαῖον τυγχάνειν. ### English translation (Claude) For since there are things useful and necessary for salvation, such as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and also our own soul, the account of them, which is knowledge, must certainly be both useful and necessary. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 29.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Those who teach others need broad learning. ### Greek text τοῖς δὲ καὶ τὴν προστασίαν ἐπανῃρημένοις τοῦ ὠφελεῖν εὔχρηστος ἡ πολυπειρία πρὸς τὸ μὴ διαλαθεῖν τι τῶν δοκούντων παρʼ ἄλλοις ἀναγκαίως καὶ πολυμαθῶς ἐπεγνῶσθαι. ### English translation (Claude) And for those who have undertaken the charge of helping others, wide experience is useful, so that nothing of what others are thought to know necessarily and learnedly escapes them. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 29.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Studying heretical teaching trains the inquiring mind and protects the learner from being deceived. ### Greek text φέρει δὲ καὶ ἄλλως συγγυμνασίαν ψυχῆς ζητητικῆς ἡ τῆς ἑτεροδόξου διδασκαλίας ἔκθεσις. καὶ ἀνεξαπάτητον τῆς ἀληθοῦς τηρεῖ τὸν μαθητήν, περισαλπίζεσθαι πάντοθεν ἤδη προμεμελετηκότα τοῖς πολεμικοῖς ὀργάνοις. ### English translation (Claude) And the exposition of heterodox teaching also gives joint exercise to an inquiring soul, and keeps the learner of the truth undeceived, having practiced in advance, when the trumpets of war sound around him on every side. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 30.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/30/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The life of the true knower is free of every evil deed, word, and thought, as Crete is free of dangerous beasts. ### Greek text Τοῦ γνωστικοῦ μόνου, καθάπερ λέγουσι τὴν Κρήτην ἄγονον εἶναι θηρίων ὀλεθρίων, ὁ βίος καθαρὸς ἀπὸ παντὸς πονηροῦ ἔργου τε καὶ νοήματος καὶ λόγου, οὐδὲ ἐχθρὸν ἔχοντος τὸ παράπαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ φθόνου καὶ μίσους καὶ βλασφημίας πάσης καὶ διαβολῆς ἐκτὸς ὄντος. ### English translation (Claude) Only of the one who knows, as they say Crete produces no deadly beasts, is the life pure from every evil deed, thought, and word; he has no enemy at all, and is beyond envy, hatred, every blasphemy, and slander. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 30.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/30/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 31.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/31/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The mature Christian is blessed not for long life but for a good life worthy of eternal life; he has grieved no one ### Greek text Ἐν πολλῷ δὲ τῷ βίῳ μακαριστὸς οὐ διὰ τὸ μακρὸν [γενόμενος] ζῆν, ᾧ γε καὶ διὰ τὸ ζῆσαι εὖ ὑπῆρξεν ἀξίῳ τοῦ ζῆν ἀεὶ γενέσθαι. οὐδένα λελύπηκεν. ### English translation (Claude) Over a long life he is to be called blessed, not because he lived long, but because by living well he became worthy of living forever. He has grieved no one, ### Translation notes - The bracketed word in the Greek is the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/31/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 31.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/31/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: except to correct the wounded by the word, sweet and stinging like honey. ### Greek text ὅτι μὴ τῷ λόγῳ παιδεύων τοὺς ἡλκωμένους τὴν καρδίαν. καθάπερ μέλιτι σωτηρίῳ, γλυκεῖ τε ὄντι καὶ δηκτικῷ. ὥστε παντὸς μᾶλλον ὁ γνωστικὸς τὸ πρέπον ἂν μετὰ τοῦ κατὰ λόγον φυλάσσοι. ### English translation (Claude) except by instructing with the word those wounded in heart, as with saving honey, which is both sweet and stinging. So above all the one who knows would keep what is fitting together with what is reasonable. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 31.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/31/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 31.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/31/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: With all passion cut away, he lives by the best part of the soul, freed for adoption as God's son. ### Greek text τοῦ γὰρ ἐμπαθοῦς παντὸς περιτμηθέντος καὶ περιαιρεθέντος ἁπάσης τῆς ψυχῆς τῷ κρατίστῳ, καθαρῷ γενομένῳ καὶ ἠλευθερωμένῳ εἰς υἱοθεσίαν, τοῦ λοιποῦ σύνεστίν τε καὶ βιοῖ. ### English translation (Claude) For when all passion has been cut away and removed from the whole soul, he lives and dwells from then on with the best part, which has become pure and been set free for adoption. ### Scripture references - Rom 8:15: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 31.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/31/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 32.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/32/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:146 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Pythagoras honored the first name-giver as the wisest of men. ### Greek text Πυθαγόρας ἠξίου μὴ μόνον λογιώτατον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρεσβύτατον ἡγεῖσθαι τῶν σοφῶν τὸν θέμενον τὰ ὀνόματα τοῖς πράγμασι. ### English translation (Claude) Pythagoras thought that the one who gave names to things should be considered not only the most learned but also the oldest of the wise. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 32.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/32/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 32.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/32/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:146–147 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Scripture must be searched carefully, since the Holy Spirit has impressed his meaning on its words, so that hidden senses can be uncovered. ### Greek text δεῖ τοίνυν τὰς γραφὰς ἀκριβῶς διερευνωμένους, ἐπειδὴ ἐν παραβολαῖς εἰρῆσθαι ἀνωμολόγηνται. ἀπὸ τῶν ὀνομάτων θηρᾶσθαι τὰς δόξας, ἃς τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων ἔχον. εἰς τὰς λέξεις ὡς εἰπεῖν τὴν αὑτοῦ διάνοιαν ἐκτυπωσάμενον, διδάσκει. ἵνα ἡμῖν ἀκριβῶς ἐξεταζόμενα διαπτύσσηται μὲν τὰ ὀνόματα πολυσήμως εἰρημένα, τὸ δʼ ἐγκεκρυμμένον ἐν πολλοῖς τοῖς σκέπουσι ψηλαφώμενον καὶ καταμανθανόμενον ἐκφαίνηται καὶ ἀναλάμψῃ. ### English translation (Claude) So we must search the Scriptures exactly, since they are acknowledged to have been spoken in parables, and hunt from the names for the meanings which the Holy Spirit, having them about things, teaches, impressing his own thought, so to speak, on the words; so that, examined exactly by us, the names spoken in many senses may be unfolded, and what is hidden under many coverings, felt out and learned, may be revealed and shine forth. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 32.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/32/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 32.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/32/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:147 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Knowledge brings out the brightness of things like white lead from black, the divine wisdom that enlightens the pure. ### Greek text [οὕτ]ὡς γὰρ καὶ ὁ μόλιβδος τοῖς τρίβουσιν ἐξανθεῖ λευκὸν ἐκ μέλανος, τὸ ψιμύθιον. οὕτως καὶ ἡ γνῶσις, φέγγος καὶ λαμπρότητα καταχέουσα τῶν πραγμάτων, ἡ τῷ ὄντι θεία σοφία εἴη ἄν, τὸ φῶς τὸ εἰλικρινές, τὸ φωτίζον τοὺς καθαροὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὡς κόρην ὀφθαλμοῦ εἰς ὄψιν καὶ κατάληψιν τῆς ἀληθείας βεβαίαν. ### English translation (Claude) For as lead, when rubbed, blossoms white out of black, as white lead, so too knowledge, pouring brightness and radiance on things, would be the truly divine wisdom, the pure light that enlightens the pure among men, like the pupil of the eye, for sure sight and apprehension of the truth. ### Translation notes - The bracketed letters in the Greek are the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 32.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/32/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 33.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/33/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:147 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Kindled by that light and striving to become like it, we become true Israelites of light. ### Greek text Ἀναψάμενοι τοίνυν τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ φωτὸς ἐκείνου ἐκ τοῦ πόθου τοῦ περὶ αὐτὸ αὐτῷ ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα ἐξομοιοῦσθαι πειρώμενοι, φωτὸς ἔμπλεοι, φῶτες Ἰσραηλῖται τῷ ὄντι γινόμεθα. ### English translation (Claude) Having kindled ourselves, then, from the source of that light, and from our longing for it trying as far as possible to become like it, filled with light, we become truly Israelites of light. ### Translation notes - Clement plays on φῶτες (“men, lights”) and on Israel as “one who sees God.” ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 33.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/33/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 33.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/33/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:147 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ calls friends and brothers those who seek to become like God. ### Greek text φίλους γὰρ εἶπεν καὶ ἀδελφοὺς τοὺς ἐχομένους τῆς πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἀφομοιώσεως κατὰ ἐπιθυμίαν καὶ δίωξιν. ### English translation (Claude) For he called friends and brothers those who hold fast to becoming like the divine by desire and pursuit. ### Scripture references - John 15:15: echo, medium confidence - Matt 12:50: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/33/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 34.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/34/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:147 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Holy places receive visions and voices, but the purified person is worthy of all divine teaching and power. ### Greek text * * ἣν τόποι μὲν καθαροὶ καὶ λειμῶνες ἐδέξαντο, φωνὰς καί τινας ὄψεις ἁγίων φασμάτων ἔχοντες, ἄνθρωπος δὲ ὁ ἀκριβῶς κεκαθαρμένος ἅπας διδασκαλίας καὶ δυνάμεως θεϊκῆς καταξιωθήσεται. ### English translation (Claude) … which pure places and meadows received, having voices and certain visions of holy apparitions; but every man who has been exactly purified will be counted worthy of divine teaching and power. ### Translation notes - The asterisks in the Greek mark a gap at the start of the sentence. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 34.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/34/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 35.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:147 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The mysteries of knowledge are mocked by the many, but the few, first dazzled, grow used to them and rejoice. ### Greek text Οἶδα δὲ ἐγὼ ὅτι τὰ τῆς γνώσεως μυστήρια τοῖς μὲν πολλοῖς χλεύην φέρει καὶ μάλιστα μὴ κεκαττυμένα σοφιστικῇ τροπολογίᾳ. τοὺς δὲ ὀλίγους καθάπερ φῶς ἐπεισενεχθὲν ἐξαίφνης συμποσίῳ τινὶ συνηρεφεῖ ἐκπλήξει τὰ πρῶτα, ἔπειτα ἐθίσαντες καὶ συντραφέντες καὶ ἐγγυμνασάμενοι τῷ λογισμῷ ὡς ὑφʼ ἡδονῆς εὐφραινόμενοι καὶ ἀγαλλιώμενοι * * τὸν κύριον. ### English translation (Claude) I know that the mysteries of knowledge bring mockery from the many, especially when they are not patched up with sophistic figures of speech; but the few, like a light suddenly brought into a darkened banquet, they astonish at first; then, having become used to them, reared in them, and exercised in reasoning, as though gladdened by pleasure and rejoicing … the Lord. ### Translation notes - The asterisks in the Greek mark a gap. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 35.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 35.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:147 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: As pleasure is release from pain, knowledge is the removal of ignorance. ### Greek text ὡς γὰρ ἡ ἡδονὴ τὴν τῆς ἀλγηδόνος ἀπαλλαγὴν οὐσίαν ἔχει, οὕτως ἡ γνῶσις τῆς ἀγνοίας τὴν ὑπεξαίρεσιν. ### English translation (Claude) For as pleasure has as its essence release from pain, so knowledge has the removal of ignorance. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 35.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 35.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:147–148 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The most ignorant think they know most, as the soundest sleepers think they are awake. ### Greek text ὡς γὰρ οἱ μάλιστα καθεύδοντες οἴονται μάλιστα ἐγρηγορέναι, ἐναργεστέραις ὑποπίπτοντες καὶ ἀπερισπάστοις ταῖς ὄναρ φαντασίαις, οὕτως οἱ μάλιστα ἀγνοοῦντες μάλιστα εἰδέναι νομίζουσι. ### English translation (Claude) For as those who are most deeply asleep think they are most awake, falling into more vivid and uninterrupted dream fantasies, so those who are most ignorant think they know most. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 35.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 35.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:148 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Blessed are those who wake from this sleep to the light and truth. ### Greek text μακάριοι δὲ οἱ ἐξ ὕπνου τοῦδε καὶ τῆς παραφροσύνης ἀνεγειρόμενοι καὶ ἀναβλέψαντες τὸ φῶς καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν. ### English translation (Claude) But blessed are those who rise from this sleep and madness and look up to the light and the truth. ### Scripture references - Eph 5:14: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 35.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/35/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 36.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/36/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:148 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Whoever would have an obedient disciple must combine faith with desire, training and testing the truth of doctrines for himself; ### Greek text Δεῖ τοίνυν ἐπʼ ἴσης τῷ βουλομένῳ τὸ πειθόμενον ἔχειν τὸν μαθητὴν καὶ τῷ πόθῳ τὴν πίστιν ἐγκαταμίξαντα γυμνάζειν καὶ μελετᾶν, ἑκάστοτε πρὸς ἑαυτὸν τὴν τῶν θεωρημάτων ἀλήθειαν ἐξετάζοντα· ### English translation (Claude) Equally, then, whoever wishes to have the disciple obedient must, mingling faith with desire, train and practice, always examining for himself the truth of the doctrines; ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 36.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/36/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 36.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/36/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:148 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: only when prepared should he engage others' questions, as fledglings first exercise in the nest. ### Greek text ἐπειδὰν δὲ εὖ ἔχειν αὐτῷ δοκῇ, τότε δὴ καὶ εἰς τὰς τῶν πέλας ζητήσεις καθιέναι· ἐπεὶ καὶ οἱ νεοττοὶ προαποπειρῶνται τοῦ πετάσαι ἐπὶ τῆς καλιᾶς γυμνάσαντες τὰ πτερά. ### English translation (Claude) and when he thinks he is well prepared, then he may go down into his neighbors' inquiries too; for fledglings too first try flying in the nest, exercising their wings. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/36/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 37.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/37/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:148 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The virtue of the mature Christian is gentle, blessed, contemplative and practical, making him a divine image through love. ### Greek text Ἡ γὰρ ἀρετὴ ἡ γνωστικὴ πανταχοῦ καλὸν καὶ πρᾶον καὶ ἀβλαβὲς καὶ ἄλυπον καὶ μακάριον καὶ παρεσκευασμένον ἄριστα μὲν ὁμιλεῖν παντὶ τῷ θείῳ, ἄριστα δʼ ἀνθρώποις, θεωρητικὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ πρακτικόν, ἄγαλμα θεῖον τὸν ἄνθρωπον κατασκευάζουσα καὶ φιλόκαλον ἀπεργαζομένη διʼ ἀγάπης· ### English translation (Claude) For the virtue of the one who knows is everywhere noble, gentle, harmless, painless, and blessed, and prepared to converse best with all that is divine and best with human beings, at once contemplative and practical, making the human being a divine image and a lover of the beautiful through love. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 37.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/37/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 37.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/37/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:148 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The beautiful, contemplated above by wisdom, is practiced here through self-control and righteousness, as angelic service in the body. ### Greek text τὸ γὰρ καλὸν ὡς ἐκεῖ σοφίᾳ θεωρητὸν καὶ νοητόν, ἐνταῦθα σωφροσύνῃ καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ διὰ πίστεως πρακτόν, ἐν σαρκὶ μελετήσαντος ἀγγελικὴν ὑπουργίαν, ὥσπερ ἐν τόπῳ διαφανεῖ καὶ ἀμιάντῳ τῷ σώματι τὸν νοῦν καθιερώσαντος. ### English translation (Claude) For the beautiful, as there it is contemplated and understood by wisdom, here is practiced by self-control and righteousness through faith, by one who has practiced angelic service in the flesh, as one who has consecrated his mind in the body as in a transparent and undefiled place. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 37.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/37/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 38.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/38/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:148 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Against Tatian, who read “Let there be light” as the Creator praying to a higher God: the Creator says there is no other God. ### Greek text Πρὸς δὲ Τατιανὸν λέγοντα εὐκτικὸν εἶναι τὸ »γενηθήτω φῶς« λεκτέον· εἰ τοίνυν εὐχόμενος ᾔδει τὸν ὑπερκείμενον θεόν, πῶς λέγει »ἐγὼ θεὸς καὶ πλὴν ἐμοῦ ἄλλος οὐδείς«; ### English translation (Claude) To Tatian, who says that “Let there be light” is a prayer, we must reply: if, then, praying, he knew of a God above him, how does he say, “I am God, and besides me there is no other”? ### Scripture references - Gen 1:3: quotation, high confidence - Isa 45:5: quotation, high confidence - Deut 32:39: quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Tatian, Justin's pupil, later taught that the Creator was a lower God. The quotations are Gen 1:3 and Isa 45:5 (Deut 32:39). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 38.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/38/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 39.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/39/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:148 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: An elder taught that there are punishments for evil words, and that women who adorn their hair for immorality are punished by the power set over hair, which gave Samson his strength. ### Greek text Εἶπε μὲν ὡς κολάσεις εἰσὶ βλασφημιῶν, φλυαρίας, ἀκολάστων ῥημάτων, λόγῳ κολαζομένων καὶ παιδευομένων· ἔφασκεν δὲ καὶ διὰ τὰς τρίχας κολάζεσθαι καὶ τὸν κόσμον τὰς γυναῖκας ὑπὸ δυνάμεως τῆς ἐπὶ τούτοις τεταγμένης, ἣ καὶ τῷ Σαμψὼν δύναμιν παρεῖχε ταῖς θριξίν, ἥτις κολάζει τὰς διὰ κόσμου τριχῶν ἐπὶ πορνείαν ὁρμώσας. ### English translation (Claude) He said that there are punishments for blasphemies, idle talk, and licentious words, which are punished and corrected by word; and he said that women are punished for their hair and adornment by the power set over these things, which also gave Samson power in his hair, and which punishes women who, through the adornment of their hair, entice others to sexual immorality. ### Scripture references - Judg 16:17: allusion, high confidence - 1 Tim 2:9: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The speaker (“he”) is probably one of Clement's elders. The allusion is Judg 16:17. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 39.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/39/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 40.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/40/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:148–149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's judgment is good: it separates believers from unbelievers, prevents worse judgment, and disciplines. ### Greek text Καθάπερ ἀγαθοῦ ἀπορροίᾳ ἀγαθύνονται, οὕτως καὶ κακοῦ κακοῦνται. καλὴ ἡ κρίσις τοῦ θεοῦ, ἥ τε διάκρισις ἡ τῶν πιστῶν ἀπὸ τῶν ἀπίστων ἥ τε πρόκρισις ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ μείζονι περιπεσεῖν κρίσει ἥ τε κρίσις παίδευσις οὖσα. ### English translation (Claude) As they are made good by an emanation of the good, so they are made evil by an emanation of evil. The judgment of God is good: the separation of the faithful from the unfaithful, the prior judgment to prevent falling into a greater judgment, and judgment that is discipline. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 11:32: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 40.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/40/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 41.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/41/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Scripture says exposed infants are given to a guardian angel to be raised, and will be like the long-faithful. ### Greek text Ἡ γραφή φησι τὰ βρέφη τὰ ἐκτεθέντα τημελούχῳ παραδίδοσθαι ἀγγέλῳ, ὑφʼ οὗ παιδεύεσθαί τε καὶ αὔξειν, »καὶ ἔσονται«, φησίν, »ὡς οἱ ἑκατὸν ἐτῶν ἐνταῦθα πιστοί.« ### English translation (Claude) Scripture says that infants who have been exposed are handed over to a guardian angel, by whom they are instructed and grow up. “And they will be,” it says, “like the faithful of a hundred years here.” ### Extrabiblical texts - Apoc. Pet. (Apocalypse of Peter): quotation, medium confidence ### Translation notes - “Scripture” here is the Apocalypse of Peter, which Clement cites as Scripture (compare 48.1). Exposure of unwanted infants was common in the Roman world. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 41.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/41/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 41.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/41/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Apocalypse of Peter says fire leaps from those infants to strike the eyes of the women who exposed them, ### Greek text Διὸ καὶ Πέτρος ἐν τῇ Ἀποκαλύψει φησί· »καὶ ἀστραπὴ πυρὸς πηδῶσα ἀπὸ τῶν βρεφῶν ἐκείνων καὶ πλήσσουσα τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τῶν γυναικῶν·« ### English translation (Claude) That is why Peter too says in the Apocalypse: “And a flash of fire leaping from those infants and striking the eyes of the women,” ### Extrabiblical texts - Apoc. Pet. (Apocalypse of Peter): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 41.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/41/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 41.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/41/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: since the righteous will shine like sparks through stubble and judge nations. ### Greek text ἐπεὶ ὁ δίκαιος »ὡς σπινθὴρ διὰ καλάμης ἐκλάμπει καὶ κρίνει ἔθνη.« ### English translation (Claude) since the righteous man “shines out like a spark through stubble and judges nations.” ### Extrabiblical texts - Wis 3:7–8 (Wisdom of Solomon): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Wis 3:7–8. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 41.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/41/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 42.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/42/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “With the holy you will be holy” means God is glorified through our knowledge of him. ### Greek text »Μετὰ ὁσίου ὁσιωθήσῃ.« κατὰ αἶνον ὁσίων δεδόξασται τὸ ὄνομά σου, κατʼ ἐπίγνωσιν ἡμῶν δοξαζομένου τοῦ θεοῦ [κατά τε τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν κατά τε τὴν κληρονομίαν]. οὕτω καὶ τὸ »ζῇ κύριος« καὶ τὸ »ἀνέστη κύριος«. ### English translation (Claude) “With the holy you will be holy.” Your name has been glorified according to the praise of the holy, God being glorified according to our knowledge. So too with “The Lord lives” and “The Lord has risen.” ### Scripture references - Ps 18:25 (17:26 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Ps 18:46 (17:47 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Ps 18:25 (17:26 LXX); “The Lord lives” is Ps 18:46 (17:47 LXX). The bracketed words in the Greek, repeated from 44.1, are the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 42.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/42/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 43.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/43/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “A people I did not know served me” means the Gentiles, not known through the covenant. ### Greek text »Λαὸς ὃν οὐκ ἔγνων, ἐδούλευσέν μοι·« κατὰ διαθήκην οὐκ ἔγνων. ### English translation (Claude) “A people whom I did not know served me”: did not know according to the covenant. ### Scripture references - Ps 18:43 (17:44 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 43.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/43/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 43.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/43/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “Foreign sons” are those who follow what belongs to another. ### Greek text »Υἱοὶ ἀλλότριοι·« τὰ τοῦ ἄλλου ἐζηλωκότες. ### English translation (Claude) “Foreign sons”: those who have zealously pursued the things of another. ### Scripture references - Ps 18:44 (17:45 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 43.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/43/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 44.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/44/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: All believers are called kings, called to the kingdom by knowledge and inheritance. ### Greek text »Μεγαλύνων τὰς σωτηρίας τοῦ βασιλέως αὐτοῦ.« βασιλεῖς πάντες λέγονται οἱ πιστοί, κεκλημένοι εἰς βασιλείαν κατά τε τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν κατά τε τὴν κληρονομίαν. ### English translation (Claude) “Magnifying the salvations of his king.” All the faithful are called kings, being called to the kingdom both by knowledge and by inheritance. ### Scripture references - Ps 18:50 (17:51 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Rev 1:6: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 44.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/44/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 45.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/45/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Patience is sweet for its fruit; the self-controlled struggle with passion, but when virtue becomes settled one is united with the Holy Spirit beyond mere self-control. ### Greek text »Ἡ μακροθυμία γλυκύτης ἐστὶν ὑπὲρ τὸ μέλι«, οὐχ ὅτι ἐστὶ μακροθυμία, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸν καρπὸν τῆς μακροθυμίας. ἐπεὶ οὐδὲ ὁ ἐγκρατής ἐστιν ἀπαθής, κρατῶν οὐκ ἀπόνως τῶν παθῶν· ὅταν δὲ ἕξις γένηται, οὐκέτι ἐγκρατής, ἐν μιᾷ ἕξει τῷ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι γενομένου τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. ### English translation (Claude) “Patience is sweeter than honey,” not because it is patience, but on account of the fruit of patience. For neither is the self-controlled person free of passion, since he masters the passions not without toil; but when it becomes a settled state, he is no longer self-controlled, the man having become one in a single state with the Holy Spirit. ### Translation notes - The source of the saying about patience is uncertain (compare Prov 16:24; Ps 19:10). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 45.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/45/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 46.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/46/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Passions are called “spirits” by their tendency, not their substance. ### Greek text »Πνεύματα·« λέγεται τὰ πάθη τὰ ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ οὐκ ἐξ οὐσίας πνεύματα, ἐπεὶ ἔσται ἐμπαθὴς ἄνθρωπος λεγεὼν δαιμόνων, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν [προ]τροπήν. ### English translation (Claude) “Spirits”: the passions in the soul are called spirits, not spirits by substance, since then the passionate man would be a legion of demons, but by their tendency. ### Scripture references - Mark 5:9: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The “legion” recalls Mark 5:9. The bracketed letters in the Greek are the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 46.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/46/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 46.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/46/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:149–150 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The soul that takes on various vices is said to take on spirits. ### Greek text ἡ γὰρ αὐτὴ ψυχὴ κατὰ μεταβολὰς ἄλλας καὶ ἄλλας ποιότητας κακίας ἀναδεχομένη πνεύματα λέγεται ἀνειληφέναι. ### English translation (Claude) For the same soul, taking on different qualities of vice through its changes, is said to have taken on spirits. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 46.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/46/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 47.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/47/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:150 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ commands not giving up possessions but managing them without attachment; and God's providence extends beyond those living in the flesh. ### Greek text Ὁ λόγος τῆς κτήσεως ἀφίστασθαι οὐ κελεύει, ἀλλʼ ἀπροσπαθῶς διοικεῖν τὴν κτῆσιν. ἐπισυμβάντος δέ τινος μὴ ἀγανακτεῖν μηδὲ λυπεῖσθαι μηδὲ ἐπιθυμεῖν κτήσασθαι· τῆς ἐν πάθει γὰρ κτήσεως ἀφίστασθαι κελεύει καὶ πάσης προσπαθείας. Ἡ θεία πρόνοια οὐ καταστρέφει ἐπὶ μόνους τοὺς ἐν σαρκί. ### English translation (Claude) The Word does not command us to give up possessions, but to manage possessions without attachment; and if something befalls us, not to be vexed or grieved or desire to acquire; for he commands us to give up possession in passion and all attachment. Divine providence does not end with those in the flesh alone. ### Extrabiblical texts - Clement of Alexandria, Quis div. 11.2 (Who Is the Rich Man That Is Saved?): echo, high confidence ### Translation notes - Compare Quis div. 11–14. The last sentence introduces 48.1. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 47.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/47/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 48.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/48/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:150 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Apocalypse of Peter says aborted infants are given to a guardian angel, to receive knowledge and a better dwelling. ### Greek text αὐτίκα ὁ Πέτρος ἐν τῇ Ἀποκαλύψει φησὶν »τὰ βρέφη ἐξαμβλωθέντα τῆς ἀμείνονος ἐσόμενα μοίρας, ταῦτα ἀγγέλῳ τημελούχῳ παραδίδοσθαι, ἵνα γνώσεως μεταλαβόντα τῆς ἀμείνονος τύχῃ μονῆς, παθόντα ἃ ἂν ἔπαθεν καὶ ἐν σώματι γενόμενα.« ### English translation (Claude) For instance, Peter in the Apocalypse says, “The infants who were aborted, who will have the better portion, are handed over to a guardian angel, so that, having received knowledge, they may obtain the better dwelling, having suffered what they would have suffered if they had been in the body.” ### Extrabiblical texts - Apoc. Pet. (Apocalypse of Peter): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 48.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/48/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 48.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/48/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:150 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Others will receive salvation alone, pitied as wronged, without punishment. ### Greek text τὰ δʼ ἕτερα μόνης τῆς σωτηρίας τεύξεται, ὡς ἠδικημένα ἐλεηθέντα, καὶ μενεῖ ἄνευ κολάσεως, τοῦτο γέρας λαβόντα. ### English translation (Claude) But the others will obtain salvation alone, being pitied as wronged, and will remain without punishment, receiving this as their reward. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 48.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/48/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 49.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/49/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:150 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Apocalypse of Peter says that the congealed milk of mothers who killed their children breeds beasts that devour them, teaching that punishments arise from sins. ### Greek text »Τὸ δὲ γάλα τῶν γυναικῶν, ῥέον ἀπὸ τῶν μαστῶν καὶ πηγνύμενον«, φησὶν ὁ Πέτρος ἐν τῇ Ἀποκαλύψει, »γεννήσει θηρία λεπτὰ σαρκοφάγα καὶ ἀνατρέχοντα εἰς αὐτὰς κατεσθίει«, διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας γίνεσθαι τὰς κολάσεις διδάσκων. ### English translation (Claude) “And the milk of the women, flowing from their breasts and congealing,” says Peter in the Apocalypse, “will breed small flesh-eating beasts, and running back upon them they devour them,” teaching that punishments come about because of sins. ### Extrabiblical texts - Apoc. Pet. (Apocalypse of Peter): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 49.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/49/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 49.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/49/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:150 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Punishments are born from sins, as Israel was bitten by snakes for unbelief. ### Greek text ἐκ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν γεννᾶσθαι αὐτάς φησιν, ὡς διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἐπράθη ὁ λαός, καὶ »διὰ τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν ἀπιστίαν«, ὥς φησιν ὁ ἀπόστολος, »ὑπὸ τῶν ὄφεων ἐδάκνοντο«. ### English translation (Claude) He says they are born from the sins, as the people were sold because of their sins, and, as the apostle says, “because of their unbelief in Christ they were bitten by the snakes.” ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 10:9: allusion, high confidence - Num 21:6: allusion, high confidence - Isa 50:1: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The “apostle” is a paraphrase of 1 Cor 10:9 (Num 21:6). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 49.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/49/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 50.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/50/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:150–151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: An elder taught that the unborn is a living being: an angel of birth brings the soul into the womb at conception. ### Greek text Ἔλεγεν πρεσβύτης ζῷον εἶναι τὸ κατὰ γαστρός. εἰσιοῦσαν γὰρ τὴν ψυχὴν εἰς τὴν μήτραν ἀπὸ τῆς καθάρσεως ηὐτρεπισμένην εἰς σύλληψιν καὶ εἰσκριθεῖσαν ὑπό τινος τῶν τῇ γενέσει ἐφεστώτων ἀγγέλων προγινώσκοντος τὸν καιρὸν τῆς συλλήψεως κινεῖν πρὸς συνουσίαν τὴν γυναῖκα, καταβληθέντος δὲ τοῦ σπέρματος ὡς εἰπεῖν ἐξοικειοῦσθαι τὸ ἐν τῷ σπέρματι πνεῦμα καὶ οὕτως συλλαμβάνεσθαι τῇ ### English translation (Claude) An elder used to say that what is in the womb is a living being. For the soul enters the womb when it has been prepared for conception by the purification, and, introduced by one of the angels who preside over birth, who knows beforehand the time of conception, it moves the woman to intercourse; and when the seed has been sown, the spirit in the seed is, so to speak, made its own, and so is conceived together with the ### Translation notes - This is an early Christian statement that the embryo is a living being (ζῷον). “The purification” is the woman's monthly period. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 50.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/50/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 50.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/50/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: When angels announce births to barren women they introduce the souls in advance; John leaped in the womb as a living being. ### Greek text πλάσει. † μαρτύριον ὠνόμασεν πᾶσιν. καὶ ὁπηνίκα ἂν εὐαγγελίζωνται οἱ ἄγγελοι τὰς στείρας, οἷον προεισκρίνουσι τῆς συλλήψεως τὰς ψυχάς· καὶ ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ »τὸ βρέφος ἐσκίρτησεν« ὡς ἔμψυχον. ### English translation (Claude) formation. … he called a testimony to all. And whenever the angels bring good news to barren women, they introduce the souls, as it were, before conception. And in the Gospel “the babe leaped,” as ensouled. ### Scripture references - Luke 1:41: quotation, high confidence - Luke 1:44: allusion, high confidence - Luke 1:13: echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The words before “he called a testimony” are corrupt (marked with a dagger). The allusion is Luke 1:41, 44. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 50.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/50/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 50.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/50/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Barrenness occurs when no soul is introduced to make the seed conceive. ### Greek text * * καὶ αἱ στεῖραι διὰ τοῦτό εἰσι στεῖραι, ὡς ἂν μὴ εἰσκρινομένης τῆς ψυχῆς τὴν τοῦ σπέρματος καταβολὴν συναγούσης εἰς κατοχὴν συλλήψεως καὶ γεννήσεως. ### English translation (Claude) … and barren women are barren for this reason, that the soul is not introduced to bind the sown seed into the holding of conception and birth. ### Translation notes - The asterisks in the Greek mark a gap. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 50.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/50/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 51.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/51/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “The heavens” in Ps 19 has several senses, including the first-created angels through whom the covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses were given. ### Greek text »Οἱ οὐρανοὶ διηγοῦνται δόξαν θεοῦ.« οἱ οὐρανοὶ λέγονται πολλαχῶς, καὶ οἱ κατὰ διάστημα καὶ περίοδον καὶ ἡ κατὰ διαθήκην τῶν πρωτοκτίστων ἀγγέλων ἐνέργεια προσεχής· κυριωτέρᾳ γὰρ παρουσίᾳ ἀγγέλων αἱ διαθῆκαι ἐνηργήθησαν ἡ ἐπὶ Ἀδάμ, ἡ ἐπὶ Νῶε, ἡ ἐπὶ Ἀβραάμ, ἡ ἐπὶ Μωυσέως. ### English translation (Claude) “The heavens declare the glory of God.” Heavens are spoken of in many senses: both those in space and revolution, and the immediate activity of the first-created angels in the covenants; for the covenants were brought into effect by the more sovereign presence of angels: that with Adam, that with Noah, that with Abraham, that with Moses. ### Scripture references - Ps 19:1 (18:2 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Gal 3:19: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 51.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/51/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 51.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/51/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The first-created angels, moved by the Lord, declared God's covenants through the angels near the prophets. ### Greek text διὰ γὰρ τοῦ κυρίου κινηθέντες οἱ πρωτόκτιστοι ἄγγελοι ἐνήργουν εἰς τοὺς προσεχεῖς τοῖς προφήταις ἀγγέλους διηγούμενοι »δόξαν θεοῦ«, τὰς διαθήκας. ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ ἔργα τὰ κατὰ τὴν γῆν γενόμενα ὑπʼ ἀγγέλων ### English translation (Claude) For the first-created angels, moved by the Lord, acted on the angels next to the prophets, declaring “the glory of God,” the covenants. But also the works done on earth by angels ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 51.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/51/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 52.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The “heavens” are properly the Lord, then the highest angels, then the patriarchs, Moses, the prophets, and the apostles. ### Greek text διὰ τῶν πρωτοκτίστων ἀγγέλων ἐγένοντο εἰς »δόξαν θεοῦ«. καλοῦνται δὲ οὐρανοὶ κυρίως μὲν ὁ κύριος, ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ οἱ πρωτόκτιστοι, μεθʼ οὓς καὶ οἱ ἅγιοι πρὸ νόμου ἄνθρωποι. ὡς οἱ πατριάρχαι, καὶ Μωυσῆς καὶ οἱ προφῆται, εἶτα καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι. ### English translation (Claude) came about through the first-created angels for “the glory of God.” The heavens are properly the Lord, then also the first-created, and after them the holy men before the law, like the patriarchs, and Moses and the prophets, and then the apostles. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 52.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 52.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The firmament is God himself, unchangeable, as Ps 18 calls the Lord his firmament. ### Greek text »Ποίησιν δὲ χειρῶν αὐτοῦ ἀναγγέλλει τὸ στερέωμα.« στερέωμα λέγει τὸν θεὸν τὸν ἀπαθῆ καὶ ἀμετάβλητον, ὡς καὶ ἀλλαχῇ ὁ αὐτὸς Δαβίδ· »ἀγαπήσω σε, κύριε, ἡ ἰσχύς μου, κύριος στερέωμά μου καὶ καταφυγή μου.« ### English translation (Claude) “The firmament proclaims the work of his hands.” He calls God the firmament, impassible and unchangeable, as the same David says elsewhere: “I will love you, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my firmament and my refuge.” ### Scripture references - Ps 19:1 (18:2 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Ps 18:1 (17:2 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Ps 18:2 (17:3 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 52.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 52.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The firmament reveals the angels God made; “day to day pours forth speech” is read like “heavens,” in many senses. ### Greek text τὴν ποίησιν οὖν τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ αὐτὸ τὸ στερέωμα ἀναγγέλλει, τοῦτʼ ἔστιν δείκνυσι καὶ φαίνει τὴν ποίησιν τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ· ἀναγγέλλει γὰρ καὶ δείκνυσιν οὓς ἐποίησεν. »Ἡμέρα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐρεύγεται ῥῆμα.« ὡς οἱ οὐρανοὶ πολλαχῶς. ### English translation (Claude) The firmament itself, then, proclaims the work of his hands, that is, shows and reveals the making of his angels; for it proclaims and shows those whom he made. “Day to day pours forth speech.” As the heavens are meant in many senses, ### Scripture references - Ps 19:2 (18:3 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 52.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/52/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 53.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:151 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The “speech” is the Lord, who is also called “day.” ### Greek text οὕτως καὶ ἡ ἡμέρα. ῥῆμα δὲ ὁ κύριος, καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς δὲ ἡμέρα πολλαχῇ εἴρηται. ### English translation (Claude) so too is day. And speech is the Lord, and he too is called day in many ways. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 53.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 53.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:151–152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “Night to night proclaims knowledge”: the devil knew the Lord would come but not whether Jesus was he, so he tempted him and waited until the resurrection. ### Greek text »καὶ νὺξ νυκτὶ ἀναγγέλλει γνῶσιν.« ὁ διάβολος ᾔδει ἐλευσόμενον τὸν κύριον, εἰ δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς αὐτὸς εἴη, οὐκ ἠπίστατο· διὸ καὶ ἐπείραζεν αὐτόν ἵνα γνῷ· † εἰ δυνατός ἐστιν. ἐᾶν φησι· »καὶ ἀπέστη ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς καιρόν«, τουτέστιν ἀνεβάλλετο τὴν εὕρεσιν εἰς τὴν ἀνάστασιν. ᾔδει γὰρ τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν κύριον τὸν ἀναστησόμενον. ### English translation (Claude) “And night to night proclaims knowledge.” The devil knew that the Lord would come, but did not know whether Jesus was he; that is why he tempted him, to know whether he was powerful. … it says, “And he departed from him for a time,” that is, he postponed the discovery until the resurrection. For he knew that this was the Lord who would rise. ### Scripture references - Ps 19:2 (18:3 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Luke 4:13: quotation, high confidence - Matt 4:3: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The words after “powerful” are corrupt (marked with a dagger). The quotations are Ps 19:2 (18:3 LXX) and Luke 4:13. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 53.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 53.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The demons suspected Solomon was the Lord until he sinned. ### Greek text ὁμοίως καὶ οἱ δαίμονες, ἐπεὶ καὶ Σολομῶνα ὑπώπτευσαν εἶναι τὸν κύριον, ἔγνωσαν δὲ μὴ εἶναι, ἁμαρτόντος αὐτοῦ. ### English translation (Claude) Likewise the demons, since they suspected that Solomon was the Lord, but knew that he was not when he sinned. ### Scripture references - 1 Kgs 11:4: allusion, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 53.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 53.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: After the resurrection all the demons knew Jesus was the Lord; Enoch says the fallen angels taught astronomy and divination. ### Greek text »νὺξ νυκτί·« πάντες οἱ δαίμονες ἔγνωσαν ὅτι κύριος ἦν ὁ ἀναστὰς μετὰ τὸ πάθος. ἤδη δὲ καὶ Ἐνώχ φησιν τοὺς παραβάντας ἀγγέλους διδάξαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀστρονομίαν καὶ μαντικὴν καὶ τὰς ἄλλας τέχνας. ### English translation (Claude) “Night to night”: all the demons knew that the one who rose after the passion was the Lord. And already Enoch says that the angels who transgressed taught human beings astronomy, divination, and the other arts. ### Scripture references - Ps 19:2 (18:3 LXX): allusion, high confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - 1 En. 8.1–3 (1 Enoch): allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The Enoch reference is to 1 En. 8.1–3. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 53.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 54.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/54/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The voices of the heavens are heard through all the earth. ### Greek text »Οὐκ εἰσὶ λαλιαὶ οὐδὲ λόγοι, ὧν οὐκ ἀκούονται αἱ φωναὶ αὐτῶν« οὔτε τῶν ἡμερῶν οὔτε τῶν νυκτῶν. »εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν.« ### English translation (Claude) “There are no speeches or words whose voices are not heard,” either of the days or of the nights. “Their sound has gone out into all the earth.” ### Scripture references - Ps 19:3 (18:4 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Ps 19:4 (18:5 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Rom 10:18: echo, medium confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 54.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/54/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 54.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/54/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The psalm refers to the saints, called heavens and days. ### Greek text μετήνεγκεν τὸν λόγον ἐπὶ μόνους τοὺς ἁγίους, οὓς οὐρανούς τε εἴρηκεν καὶ ἡμέρας. ### English translation (Claude) He transferred the saying to the saints alone, whom he called both heavens and days. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 54.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/54/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 55.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/55/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The stars, governed by angels, do not cause events but signify past, present, and future. ### Greek text Οἱ ἀστέρες, σώματα πνευματικά, κεκοινωνηκότα ἀγγέλοις ἐφεστῶσι διοικούμενα, οὐκ αἴτια γενέσεως, σημαντικὰ δὲ τῶν γινομένων τε καὶ ἐσομένων καὶ γενομένων ἐπί τε τροπῶν ἀέρων ἐπί τε εὐφορίας καὶ ἀκαρπίας ἐπί τε λοιμῶν καὶ φλογμῶν ἐπί τε τῶν ἀνθρώπων. ### English translation (Claude) The stars, spiritual bodies which share with the angels set over them and are governed by them, are not causes of birth, but signs of what is happening, will happen, and has happened, concerning changes of the air, fruitfulness and barrenness, plagues and fevers, and concerning human beings. ### Extrabiblical texts - Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 70.2 (Excerpts from Theodotus): echo, medium confidence ### Translation notes - Compare Exc. 70.2. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 55.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/55/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 55.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/55/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The stars signify but do not cause. ### Greek text οὐδʼ ὄναρ τὰς ἐνεργείας ποιεῖ τὰ ἄστρα, σημαίνει δὲ »τά τʼ ἐόντα, τά τʼ ἐσσόμενα, πρό τʼ ἐόντα«. ### English translation (Claude) The stars do not produce the effects in the slightest, but they signify “what is, what will be, and what was before.” ### Extrabiblical texts - Homer, Il. 1.70 (Homer, Iliad): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotation is Homer, Iliad 1.70. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 55.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/55/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 56.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “In the sun he set his tent” should be read after the verses about the bridegroom's coming, as referring to the second coming. ### Greek text »Καὶ ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ.« ἐνταῦθα ὑπερβατόν ἐστι· περὶ γὰρ τῆς παρουσίας τῆς δευτέρας ὁ λόγος. οὕτως οὖν ἀναγνωστέον τὸ ὑπερβατὸν κατὰ ἀκολουθίαν. »καὶ αὐτὸς ὡς νυμφίος ἐκπορευόμενος ἐκ παστοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀγαλλιάσεται ὡς γίγας δραμεῖν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ. ἀπʼ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἡ ἔξοδος αὐτοῦ· οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἀποκρυβήσεται τὴν θέρμην αὐτοῦ.« καὶ τότε· »ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ.« ### English translation (Claude) “And in the sun he set his tent.” Here there is a transposition; for the saying is about the second coming. So the transposition must be read in order: “And he himself, like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, will rejoice like a giant to run his course. His going forth is from the end of heaven; there is no one who will be hidden from his heat.” And then: “In the sun he set his tent.” ### Scripture references - Ps 19:4 (18:5 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Ps 19:5 (18:6 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Ps 19:6 (18:7 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotations are Ps 19:4–6 (18:5–7 LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 56.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:152–153 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Hermogenes said Christ laid aside his body in the sun; Clement's teacher Pantaenus taught that prophecy often uses one tense for another, as here. ### Greek text ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν φασι τὸ σῶμα τοῦ κυρίου ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ αὐτὸν ἀποτίθεσθαι, ὡς Ἑρμογένης, σῶμα δὲ λέγουσιν οἳ μὲν τὸ σκῆνος αὐτοῦ, οἳ δὲ τὴν τῶν πιστῶν ἐκκλησίαν, ὁ Πάνταινος δὲ * ἡμῶν ἔλεγεν »ἀορίστως τὴν προφητείαν ἐκφέρειν τὰς λέξεις ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον καὶ τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἀντὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος χρῆσθαι χρόνῳ καὶ πάλιν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἀντὶ τοῦ παρῳχηκότος«, ὃ καὶ νῦν φαίνεται. ### English translation (Claude) Some, then, say that the Lord lays aside his body in the sun, as Hermogenes does; and by body some mean his tabernacle, others the church of the faithful. But Pantaenus, our …, used to say that “prophecy utters its words indefinitely for the most part, and uses the present tense instead of the future, and again the present instead of the past,” which is the case here too. ### Translation notes - Hermogenes was a teacher opposed by Tertullian. Pantaenus was Clement's teacher at Alexandria; a word describing him (probably “teacher”) is missing in the manuscript. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 56.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:153 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “He set” refers to the future: at the end Christ will come to the faithful, who form one body with many members, ### Greek text τὸ γὰρ »ἔθετο« καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρῳχηκότος καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐσομένου τάσσεται· ἐπὶ μὲν τοῦ ἐσομένου, ὅτι πληρωθείσης ταύτης τῆς κατὰ τὴν παροῦσαν κατάστασιν περιόδου ὁ κύριος ἐλεύσεται πρὸς τοὺς δικαίους τοὺς πιστούς, οἷς ἐπαναπαύεται καθάπερ σκηνῇ· ἓν γὰρ σῶμα οἱ πάντες ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ γένους τὴν αὐτὴν πίστιν καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἑλόμενοι, εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν ἑνότητα ἀποκαταστησόμενοι· ἀλλʼ οἳ μὲν ὡς κεφαλή, οἳ δὲ ὡς ὀφθαλμοί, οἳ δὲ ὡς ὦτα. ### English translation (Claude) For “he set” is used both of the past and of the future: of the future, because when this period of the present state is completed, the Lord will come to the righteous and faithful, in whom he rests as in a tent; for all who, from the same race, have chosen the same faith and righteousness are one body, to be restored to the same unity; but some as head, others as eyes, others as ears, ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 12:12: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 12:16: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 56.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:153 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: and they will be set in the sun, shining like the sun, since a ruling angel is in the sun; ### Greek text οἳ δὲ ὡς χεῖρες, οἳ δὲ ὡς στήθη, οἳ δὲ ὡς πόδες ἐν ἡλίῳ τεθήσονται φωτεινοί, »λάμψαντες ὡς ὁ ἥλιος« ἢ ἐν ἡλίῳ, ἐπεὶ ἀρχοντικὸς ἄγγελος ἐν ἡλίῳ· ### English translation (Claude) others as hands, others as breast, others as feet, will be set in the sun, luminous, “shining like the sun,” or in the sun, since a ruling angel is in the sun; ### Scripture references - Matt 13:43: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 56.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/5/ - Source: Stählin 3:153 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: the sun rules the day, as the moon the night. ### Greek text εἰς ἀρχὴν γὰρ ἡμερῶν τέτακται, καθάπερ ἡ σελήνη εἰς τὸ ἄρχειν νυκτός· ### English translation (Claude) for it is appointed to rule the days, as the moon to rule the night. ### Scripture references - Gen 1:16: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/5/). ## Prophetic Extracts 56.6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/6/ - Source: Stählin 3:153 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The saved will be ranked with the sun's angels and in time rule the days, as each angel advances to a higher office, rising to the first abode. ### Greek text ἡμέραι δὲ ἄγγελοι ἐκλήθησαν. μετὰ τῶν μεθʼ ἡλίου ἀγγέλων, φησί, ταγήσονται (ἓν ὥσπερ κεφαλὴ σώματος, ὄντος ἑνός, ὁ ἥλιος), ἐσόμενοί ποτε κατά τινα περίοδον καὶ αὐτοὶ ἄρχοντες ἡμερῶν, ὡς ἐκεῖνος ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἡλίου ἐπὶ τὸ μεῖζον ἐλεύσεται. ἐφʼ ὃ μετῆλθεν ὁ πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ. καὶ πάλιν ἐπαναβησόμενοι κατὰ προκοπὴν ἀφίξονται ἐπὶ τὴν πρώτην μονήν. ### English translation (Claude) And angels were called days. With the angels who are with the sun, he says, they will be ranked (the sun being like the head of one body), and they too will some day, according to a certain period, be rulers of days, as the one set over the sun will advance to a greater office, to which the one before him in the same place has moved on. And again, rising by advancement, they will come to the first abode. ### Translation notes - This is Clement's (or his source's) view of progressive advancement after death. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/6/). ## Prophetic Extracts 56.7 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/7/ - Source: Stählin 3:153 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: In the past sense, God set the highest angels in rest and contemplation, and the others advance in rank. ### Greek text ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸν παρῳχηκότα »ἔθετο« τοὺς [τε] πρωτοκτίστους ἀγγέλους εἰς τὸ μηκέτι κατὰ τὴν πρόνοιαν τῷ ὡρισμένῳ λειτουργεῖν, ἀλλʼ εἶναι ἐν ἀναπαύσει καὶ πρὸς μόνῃ τῇ θεωρίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ· οἱ δὲ προσεχέστεροι τούτοις προκόψουσιν εἰς ἣν ἐκεῖνοι ἀπολελοίπασι τάξιν, καὶ οὕτως οἱ ὑποβεβηκότες ἀναλόγως. ### English translation (Claude) But according to the past tense, “he set” the first-created angels no longer to minister by providence to what is appointed, but to be at rest and devoted to the contemplation of God alone; and those next to them will advance to the rank they have left, and so the lower ones proportionately. ### Translation notes - The bracketed word in the Greek is the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/7/). ## Prophetic Extracts 57.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:153 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The first-created angels are the “thrones,” because God rests in them, as he does in believers. ### Greek text 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 translation (Claude) 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. ### Scripture references - Col 1:16: allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 57.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:153–154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God rests on each one's knowledge of him, and knowledge makes the knower eternal. ### Greek text 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 translation (Claude) 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. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 57.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Perhaps “in the sun” (ἡλίῳ) conceals the Hebrew El, “God,” as in Christ's cry “Eli, Eli.” ### Greek text καὶ μή τι τὸ »ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ« οὕτως ἐξακούεται· ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο, τουτέστιν ἐν [τῷ θεῷ, ] τῷ ἢλ ἤγουν θεῷ, ὡς ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ »ἠλὶ ἠλὶ« ἀντὶ τοῦ »θεέ μου, θεέ μου«. ### English translation (Claude) And perhaps “in the sun he set his tent” is to be understood in this way: in the sun (ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ) he set it, that is, in the El, that is, in God, as in the Gospel “Eli, Eli” instead of “My God, my God.” ### Scripture references - Matt 27:46: quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - A wordplay on the Greek ἡλίῳ (“sun”) and the Hebrew El (“God”). The allusion is Matt 27:46. The bracketed words in the Greek are the editor's deletion. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 57.4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/4/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Those far above every power are the perfected, raised into the nature of the highest angels. ### Greek text καὶ τὸ »ὑπεράνω πάσης ἀρχῆς καὶ ἐξουσίας καὶ δυνάμεως καὶ παντὸς ὀνόματος ὀνομαζομένου« οἱ τελειωθέντες εἰσὶν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων, ἀγγέλων, ἀρχαγγέλων εἰς τὴν πρωτόκτιστον τῶν ἀγγέλων φύσιν. ### English translation (Claude) And “far above every principality and authority and power and every name that is named” are those who have been perfected, from men, angels, and archangels, into the first-created nature of angels. ### Scripture references - Eph 1:21: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/4/). ## Prophetic Extracts 57.5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/5/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Those who become angels are taught for a thousand years, then teach others, rising by periods to higher rank. ### Greek text 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 translation (Claude) 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. ### Translation notes - A speculative scheme of progressive perfection; its source is uncertain. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/5/). ## Prophetic Extracts 58.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/58/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The law that converts souls is Christ, called “law and word” in the Preaching of Peter and in Isaiah. ### Greek text »Ὁ νόμος τοῦ θεοῦ ἄμωμος, ἐπιστρέφων ψυχάς.« »νόμος καὶ λόγος« αὐτὸς ὁ σωτὴρ λέγεται, ὡς Πέτρος ἐν Κηρύγματι καὶ ὁ προφήτης· »ἐκ γὰρ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος, καὶ λόγος κυρίου ἐξ Ἱερουσαλήμ.« ### English translation (Claude) “The law of God is blameless, converting souls.” The Savior himself is called “law and word,” as Peter says in the Preaching, and the prophet: “For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” ### Scripture references - Ps 19:7 (18:8 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Isa 2:3: quotation, high confidence - Mic 4:2: quotation, medium confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Ker. Pet. (Preaching of Peter): allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - The quotations are Ps 19:7 (18:8 LXX) and Isa 2:3 (Mic 4:2). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 58.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/58/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 59.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/59/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The Lord's testimony makes the simple wise: the apostles and us. ### Greek text »Ἡ μαρτυρία κυρίου πιστή, σοφίζουσα νήπια«, ἡ διαθήκη κυρίου ἀληθής, σοφίζουσα νηπίους, τοὺς ἀκάκους τούς τε ἀποστόλους, ἔπειτα καὶ ἡμᾶς. ### English translation (Claude) “The testimony of the Lord is faithful, making infants wise”: the covenant of the Lord is true, making wise the infants, the innocent, the apostles, and then us too. ### Scripture references - Ps 19:7 (18:8 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 59.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/59/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 59.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/59/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Christ's own testimony, his suffering and resurrection, confirmed the church's faith. ### Greek text ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ αὐτοῦ τοῦ κυρίου μαρτυρία, καθʼ ἣν παθὼν ἀνέστη, ἀληθὴς γενομένη κατὰ τὸ ἔργον αὐτό, εἰς βεβαίωσιν πίστεως ἤγαγεν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν. ### English translation (Claude) But also the testimony of the Lord himself, according to which he suffered and rose, having become true in the very deed, led the church to firmness of faith. ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 59.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/59/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 60.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/60/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Those turned by fear to faith and righteousness endure forever. ### Greek text »Ὁ φόβος κυρίου ἁγνός, διαμένων εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος.« τοὺς ἐκ φόβου εἰς πίστιν ἐπιστραφέντας καὶ δικαιοσύνην εἰς αἰῶνα παραμένειν λέγει. ### English translation (Claude) “The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever and ever.” He says that those who have turned from fear to faith and righteousness remain forever. ### Scripture references - Ps 19:9 (18:10 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 60.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/60/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 60.2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/60/2/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: God's judgments are firm and just, restoring the righteous to the unity of faith. ### Greek text »τὰ κρίματα κυρίου ἀληθινά«, βέβαια καὶ ἀμετακίνητα, κατʼ ἀξίαν ἀπονεμητικὰ καὶ »εἰς τὴν ἑνότητα τῆς πίστεως« ἀποκαθιστάντα τοὺς δικαίους. ### English translation (Claude) “The judgments of the Lord are true”: firm and unchangeable, allotting according to worth and restoring the righteous “into the unity of the faith.” ### Scripture references - Ps 19:9 (18:10 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Eph 4:13: quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 60.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/60/2/). ## Prophetic Extracts 60.3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/60/3/ - Source: Stählin 3:154 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “Justified together” means that unity; such things are more desirable than gold. ### Greek text τοῦτο γὰρ σημαίνει τὸ »δεδικαιωμένα ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό«. τὰ τοιαῦτα »ἐπιθυμητὰ ὑπὲρ χρυσίον καὶ λίθον τίμιον«. ### English translation (Claude) For this is what “justified together” means. Such things are “more desirable than gold and precious stone.” ### Scripture references - Ps 19:9 (18:10 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Ps 19:10 (18:11 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 60.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/60/3/). ## Prophetic Extracts 61.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/61/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:154–155 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “Your servant” means every saved person, God's servant by obedience. ### Greek text »Καὶ γὰρ ὁ δοῦλός σου φυλάσσει αὐτά·« οὐχ ὅτι δοῦλος οἷον Δαβίδ, ἀλλὰ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὁ σῳζόμενος, δοῦλος θεοῦ διʼ ὑπακοὴν ἐντολῆς κεκλημένος. ### English translation (Claude) “For your servant keeps them”: not a servant like David only, but all the people being saved, called God's servant through obedience to the commandment. ### Scripture references - Ps 19:11 (18:12 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 61.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/61/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 62.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/62/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:155 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: Hidden faults are thoughts contrary to right reason, alien to the righteous. ### Greek text »Ἐκ τῶν κρυφίων μου καθάρισόν με·« τῶν ἐννοιῶν τῶν παρὰ τὸν ὀρθὸν λόγον, τῶν ἐγκαταλειμμάτων. ταῦτα γὰρ »ἀλλότρια« λέγει δικαίου. ### English translation (Claude) “Cleanse me from my hidden faults”: from thoughts contrary to right reason, the remnants; for these he calls “alien” to the righteous man. ### Scripture references - Ps 19:12 (18:13 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Ps 19:13 (18:14 LXX): allusion, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 62.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/62/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 63.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/63/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:155 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The psalm is read as: unless persecuted like the Lord, one cannot be proved blameless; no one becomes a martyr without persecution. ### Greek text »Ἐὰν μή μου κατακυριεύσωσι, τότε ἄμωμος ἔσομαι.« ἐπʼ ἴσης τῷ· ἐὰν μή μου κατακυριεύσωσιν οἱ διώκοντές με ὥσπερ τὸν κύριον, οὐκ ἔσομαι ἄμωμος· οὐ γὰρ μάρτυς γίνεταί τις, ἐὰν μὴ διωχθῇ, οὐδὲ δίκαιος φαίνεται, ἐὰν μὴ ἀδικηθεὶς μὴ ἀνταδικήσῃ, οὐδὲ μὴν ἀνεξίκακος, | * * * * ### English translation (Claude) “If they do not have dominion over me, then I will be blameless.” This is equivalent to: if those who persecute me, as they did the Lord, do not have dominion over me, I will not be blameless; for no one becomes a martyr unless he is persecuted, nor is anyone shown righteous unless, when wronged, he does not wrong in return, nor forbearing … ### Scripture references - Ps 19:13 (18:14 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Translation notes - Clement reads the verse against its plain sense. The Greek breaks off (asterisks). The quotation is Ps 19:13 (18:14 LXX). ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 63.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/63/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 64.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/64/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:155 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “Save the king” means the people anointed for the kingdom, as the plural “hear us” shows. ### Greek text »Κύριε, σῶσον τὸν βασιλέα«, τουτέστι τὸν εἰς βασιλείαν κεχρισμένον λαόν· οὐ γὰρ μόνον τὸν Δαβίδ· διὸ καὶ ἐπάγει· »καὶ ἐπάκουσον ἡμῶν ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπικαλεσώμεθά σε.« ### English translation (Claude) “O Lord, save the king,” that is, the people anointed for the kingdom; not only David. That is why he adds, “and hear us on whatever day we call upon you.” ### Scripture references - Ps 20:9 (19:10 LXX): quotation, high confidence ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 64.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/64/1/). ## Prophetic Extracts 65.1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/65/1/ - Source: Stählin 3:155 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: “Coming up into the heart” means the good purpose wins out. ### Greek text Τὸ ἀναβῆναι ἐπὶ τὴν καρδίαν τὸ καλὸν ὑπὸ τῆς γραφῆς λέγεται τὸ νικῆσαι τὴν καλὴν βουλήν. ### English translation (Claude) When Scripture speaks of the good “coming up into the heart,” it means that the good counsel prevails. ### Scripture references - 1 Cor 2:9: echo, low confidence ### Translation notes - The phrase echoes 1 Cor 2:9 (Isa 64:4), “nor has it entered into the heart.” ### Citation (SBL) Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 65.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/65/1/).