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Prophetic Extracts 58.1

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

Summary: The law that converts souls is Christ, called “law and word” in the Preaching of Peter and in Isaiah.

Greek text · Stählin 3:154

»Ὁ νόμος τοῦ θεοῦ ἄμωμος, ἐπιστρέφων ψυχάς.« »νόμος καὶ λόγος« αὐτὸς ὁ σωτὴρ λέγεται, ὡς Πέτρος ἐν Κηρύγματι καὶ ὁ προφήτης· »ἐκ γὰρ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος, καὶ λόγος κυρίου ἐξ Ἱερουσαλήμ.«

English · Claude translation

“The law of God is blameless, converting souls.” The Savior himself is called “law and word,” as Peter says in the Preaching, and the prophet: “For out of Zion will go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

About this passage

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).
Scripture
  • Ps 19:7 (18:8 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Isa 2:3 · quotation, high confidence
  • Mic 4:2 · quotation, medium confidence
Extrabiblical texts
  • Ker. Pet. (Preaching of Peter) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Ps 19:7 (18:8 LXX) and Isa 2:3 (Mic 4:2).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 58.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/58/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 58.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/58/1/).

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