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Prophetic Extracts 33.1

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

Summary: Kindled by that light and striving to become like it, we become true Israelites of light.

Greek text · Stählin 3:147

Ἀναψάμενοι τοίνυν τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ φωτὸς ἐκείνου ἐκ τοῦ πόθου τοῦ περὶ αὐτὸ αὐτῷ ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα ἐξομοιοῦσθαι πειρώμενοι, φωτὸς ἔμπλεοι, φῶτες Ἰσραηλῖται τῷ ὄντι γινόμεθα.

English · Claude translation

Having kindled ourselves, then, from the source of that light, and from our longing for it trying as far as possible to become like it, filled with light, we become truly Israelites of light.

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Source
Stählin 3:147 · 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
Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • Clement plays on φῶτες (“men, lights”) and on Israel as “one who sees God.”

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 33.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/33/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 33.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/33/1/).

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