Sophia Scriptura

Prophetic Extracts 29.3

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

Summary: Studying heretical teaching trains the inquiring mind and protects the learner from being deceived.

Greek text · Stählin 3:146

φέρει δὲ καὶ ἄλλως συγγυμνασίαν ψυχῆς ζητητικῆς ἡ τῆς ἑτεροδόξου διδασκαλίας ἔκθεσις. καὶ ἀνεξαπάτητον τῆς ἀληθοῦς τηρεῖ τὸν μαθητήν, περισαλπίζεσθαι πάντοθεν ἤδη προμεμελετηκότα τοῖς πολεμικοῖς ὀργάνοις.

English · Claude translation

And the exposition of heterodox teaching also gives joint exercise to an inquiring soul, and keeps the learner of the truth undeceived, having practiced in advance, when the trumpets of war sound around him on every side.

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Source
Stählin 3:146 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/29/3/).

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