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Prophetic Extracts 49.2

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

Summary: Punishments are born from sins, as Israel was bitten by snakes for unbelief.

Greek text · Stählin 3:150

ἐκ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν γεννᾶσθαι αὐτάς φησιν, ὡς διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἐπράθη ὁ λαός, καὶ »διὰ τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν ἀπιστίαν«, ὥς φησιν ὁ ἀπόστολος, »ὑπὸ τῶν ὄφεων ἐδάκνοντο«.

English · Claude translation

He says they are born from the sins, as the people were sold because of their sins, and, as the apostle says, “because of their unbelief in Christ they were bitten by the snakes.”

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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).
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Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The “apostle” is a paraphrase of 1 Cor 10:9 (Num 21:6).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 49.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/49/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 49.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/49/2/).

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