Exhortation to the Greeks 11.110

Summary: Clement begins to recount God's benefits from the beginning.

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Greek text · Stählin 1:78

Μικρὸν δέ, εἰ βούλει, ἄνωθεν ἄθρει τὴν θείαν εὐεργεσίαν.

Look a little, if you will, from the beginning at the divine benefaction.

Source: Stählin 1:78 · Otto Stählin, ed., Clemens Alexandrinus, vol. 1, Protrepticus und Paedagogus, GCS 12 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1905) · Greek text: Otto Stählin, Clemens Alexandrinus 1: Protrepticus und Paedagogus (GCS 12, 1905), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1905); made independently of existing English translations.

This short sentence opens chapter 11; the section number 110 continues from the end of chapter 10.

Clement of Alexandria, Protr. 11.110 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-protrepticus/11/110/).

Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Protr. 11.110 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-protrepticus/11/110/).