Prophetic Extracts 56.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 3:152

»Καὶ ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ.« ἐνταῦθα ὑπερβατόν ἐστι· περὶ γὰρ τῆς παρουσίας τῆς δευτέρας ὁ λόγος. οὕτως οὖν ἀναγνωστέον τὸ ὑπερβατὸν κατὰ ἀκολουθίαν. »καὶ αὐτὸς ὡς νυμφίος ἐκπορευόμενος ἐκ παστοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀγαλλιάσεται ὡς γίγας δραμεῖν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ. ἀπʼ ἄκρου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἡ ἔξοδος αὐτοῦ· οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἀποκρυβήσεται τὴν θέρμην αὐτοῦ.« καὶ τότε· »ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ.«

English · Claude translation

“And in the sun he set his tent.” Here there is a transposition; for the saying is about the second coming. So the transposition must be read in order: “And he himself, like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, will rejoice like a giant to run his course. His going forth is from the end of heaven; there is no one who will be hidden from his heat.” And then: “In the sun he set his tent.”

About this passage

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 19:4 (18:5 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 19:5 (18:6 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Ps 19:6 (18:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Ps 19:4–6 (18:5–7 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (word split in the digital text): γίγας δραμε ῖν → γίγας δραμεῖν.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 56.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/56/1/).