Prophetic Extracts 18.2

Summary: The one God measures the beginning and end of all things.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:141–142

οὗτος γὰρ εἷς θεὸς ὁ καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν καὶ τὸ τέλος τῶν γενομένων οἰκείως ἑκάστῳ μετρήσας.

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.

Source: Stählin 3:141–142 · 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).
Topics: Heresy

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/18/2/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/18/2/).