Prophetic Extracts 16.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 3:141

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.

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Source

Stählin 3:141 · 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

Isa 19:20 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Church office

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is Isa 19:20 (LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): ποτὲ μὲν προφήτας. ποτὲ δὲ → ποτὲ μὲν προφήτας, ποτὲ δὲ.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/2/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 16.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/16/2/).