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Prophetic Extracts 53.4

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

Summary: After the resurrection all the demons knew Jesus was the Lord; Enoch says the fallen angels taught astronomy and divination.

Greek text · Stählin 3:152

»νὺξ νυκτί·« πάντες οἱ δαίμονες ἔγνωσαν ὅτι κύριος ἦν ὁ ἀναστὰς μετὰ τὸ πάθος. ἤδη δὲ καὶ Ἐνώχ φησιν τοὺς παραβάντας ἀγγέλους διδάξαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀστρονομίαν καὶ μαντικὴν καὶ τὰς ἄλλας τέχνας.

English · Claude translation

“Night to night”: all the demons knew that the one who rose after the passion was the Lord. And already Enoch says that the angels who transgressed taught human beings astronomy, divination, and the other arts.

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Source
Stählin 3:152 · 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).
Scripture
  • Ps 19:2 (18:3 LXX) · allusion, high confidence
Extrabiblical texts
  • 1 En. 8.1–3 (1 Enoch) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The Enoch reference is to 1 En. 8.1–3.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 53.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 53.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/53/4/).

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