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Prophetic Extracts 2.3

Clement of Alexandria · Prophetic Extracts · ca. 200 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: God's power; the “depths” are the material substances from which all kinds of things arise.

Greek text · Stählin 3:137

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 · Claude translation

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.

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Source
Stählin 3:137 · 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
Scripture and canon

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/2/3/).

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