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Prophetic Extracts 36.2

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

Summary: only when prepared should he engage others' questions, as fledglings first exercise in the nest.

Greek text · Stählin 3:148

ἐπειδὰν δὲ εὖ ἔχειν αὐτῷ δοκῇ, τότε δὴ καὶ εἰς τὰς τῶν πέλας ζητήσεις καθιέναι· ἐπεὶ καὶ οἱ νεοττοὶ προαποπειρῶνται τοῦ πετάσαι ἐπὶ τῆς καλιᾶς γυμνάσαντες τὰ πτερά.

English · Claude translation

and when he thinks he is well prepared, then he may go down into his neighbors' inquiries too; for fledglings too first try flying in the nest, exercising their wings.

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Source
Stählin 3:148 · 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).
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Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/36/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 36.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/36/2/).

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