Prophetic Extracts 60.2

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

Summary: God's judgments are firm and just, restoring the righteous to the unity of faith.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:154

»τὰ κρίματα κυρίου ἀληθινά«, βέβαια καὶ ἀμετακίνητα, κατʼ ἀξίαν ἀπονεμητικὰ καὶ »εἰς τὴν ἑνότητα τῆς πίστεως« ἀποκαθιστάντα τοὺς δικαίους.

English · Claude translation

“The judgments of the Lord are true”: firm and unchangeable, allotting according to worth and restoring the righteous “into the unity of the faith.”

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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).

Scripture

Ps 19:9 (18:10 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Eph 4:13 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 60.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/60/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 60.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/60/2/).

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