Prophetic Extracts 13.1

Summary: The two or three witnesses are the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who witness and help us keep the commandments.

Greek text · Stählin 3:140

»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.

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Source

Stählin 3:140 · 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

Text

As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Stählin (1909); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 8 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Printed there under the wrong title “Excerpts of Theodotus”, and incomplete (it breaks off in ch. 63).

Scripture

Deut 19:15 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 18:16 · quotation, medium confidence
2 Cor 13:1 · quotation, medium confidence

Topics

Trinity

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/13/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/13/1/).

Greek text · Stählin 3:140

English · Claude translation

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