Prophetic Extracts 61.1

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

Summary: “Your servant” means every saved person, God's servant by obedience.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:154–155

»Καὶ γὰρ ὁ δοῦλός σου φυλάσσει αὐτά·« οὐχ ὅτι δοῦλος οἷον Δαβίδ, ἀλλὰ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς ὁ σῳζόμενος, δοῦλος θεοῦ διʼ ὑπακοὴν ἐντολῆς κεκλημένος.

English · Claude translation

“For your servant keeps them”: not a servant like David only, but all the people being saved, called God's servant through obedience to the commandment.

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Source

Stählin 3:154–155 · 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 19:11 (18:12 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 61.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/61/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 61.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/61/1/).

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