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Prophetic Extracts 8.2

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

Summary: Earthly water washes the body; heavenly water, the Holy Spirit, cleanses the invisible soul.

Greek text · Stählin 3:139

καὶ τὸ μὲν ἐπίγειον ὕδωρ τὸ σῶμα ἀπορρύπτει, τὸ δὲ ἐπουράνιον ὕδωρ διὰ τὸ εἶναι νοητὸν καὶ ἀόρατον πνεῦμα ἀλληγορεῖται ἅγιον, τῶν ἀοράτων καθαρτικόν, οἷον τοῦ πνεύματος ὕδωρ ὥσπερ ἐκεῖνο τοῦ σώματος.

English · Claude translation

Earthly water cleans the body, but the heavenly water, because it is intelligible and invisible, is allegorized as the Holy Spirit, the cleanser of invisible things, as a water of the spirit, as the other is of the body.

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Source
Stählin 3:139 · 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).
Topics
Baptism

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/8/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 8.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/8/2/).

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