Prophetic Extracts 26.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: it signifies his power, not evil: as fire is the strongest element, God is almighty over all.

Greek text · Stählin 3:144

ἀλλὰ δυνάμεως ὄνομα καὶ σύμβολον ἐκδεκτέον· ὡς γὰρ τὸ πῦρ ἰσχυρότατον τῶν στοιχείων καὶ πάντων κρατοῦν, οὕτω καὶ ὁ θεὸς παντοδύναμος καὶ παντοκράτωρ, ὁ δυνάμενος κρατῆσαι, κτίσαι, ποιῆσαι. τρέφειν, αὔξειν, σῴζειν, σώματος καὶ ψυχῆς ἐξουσίαν ἔχων. ὡς οὖν τῶν στοιχείων ὑπερέχει τὸ πῦρ. οὕτως θεῶν τε καὶ δυνάμεων καὶ ἀρχῶν ὁ παντοκράτωρ.

English · Claude translation

but of power. For as fire is the strongest of the elements and masters all, so God too is almighty and ruler of all, able to master, create, make, nourish, increase, and save, having authority over body and soul. As fire, then, excels the elements, so the Almighty excels gods, powers, and principalities.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:144 · 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

Trinity

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/2/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 26.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/26/2/).