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Prophetic Extracts 48.1

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

Summary: The Apocalypse of Peter says aborted infants are given to a guardian angel, to receive knowledge and a better dwelling.

Greek text · Stählin 3:150

αὐτίκα ὁ Πέτρος ἐν τῇ Ἀποκαλύψει φησὶν »τὰ βρέφη ἐξαμβλωθέντα τῆς ἀμείνονος ἐσόμενα μοίρας, ταῦτα ἀγγέλῳ τημελούχῳ παραδίδοσθαι, ἵνα γνώσεως μεταλαβόντα τῆς ἀμείνονος τύχῃ μονῆς, παθόντα ἃ ἂν ἔπαθεν καὶ ἐν σώματι γενόμενα.«

English · Claude translation

For instance, Peter in the Apocalypse says, “The infants who were aborted, who will have the better portion, are handed over to a guardian angel, so that, having received knowledge, they may obtain the better dwelling, having suffered what they would have suffered if they had been in the body.”

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Source
Stählin 3:150 · 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).
Extrabiblical texts
  • Apoc. Pet. (Apocalypse of Peter) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Eschatology, Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 48.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/48/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 48.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/48/1/).

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