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Prophetic Extracts 57.3

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

Summary: Perhaps “in the sun” (ἡλίῳ) conceals the Hebrew El, “God,” as in Christ's cry “Eli, Eli.”

Greek text · Stählin 3:154

καὶ μή τι τὸ »ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ« οὕτως ἐξακούεται· ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο, τουτέστιν ἐν [τῷ θεῷ, ] τῷ ἢλ ἤγουν θεῷ, ὡς ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ »ἠλὶ ἠλὶ« ἀντὶ τοῦ »θεέ μου, θεέ μου«.

English · Claude translation

And perhaps “in the sun he set his tent” is to be understood in this way: in the sun (ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ) he set it, that is, in the El, that is, in God, as in the Gospel “Eli, Eli” instead of “My God, my God.”

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Source
Stählin 3:154 · 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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Topics
Scripture and canon

Notes

Translation notes

  • A wordplay on the Greek ἡλίῳ (“sun”) and the Hebrew El (“God”). The allusion is Matt 27:46. The bracketed words in the Greek are the editor's deletion.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 57.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/57/3/).

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