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Prophetic Extracts 12.4

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

Summary: God knows what we need; he wants us emptied of worldly cares and filled with care for him.

Greek text · Stählin 3:140

ὁ γὰρ θεὸς οἶδεν σαφῶς τίνα μὲν ἡμῖν ἔχειν, τίνων δὲ ἀπορεῖν συμφέρει. κενώσαντας οὖν σφᾶς αὐτοὺς τῶν κοσμικῶν φροντίδων ἀξιοῖ πληροῦσθαι τῆς εἰς θεόν.

English · Claude translation

For God knows clearly what it is good for us to have and what to lack. So he wants us, having emptied ourselves of worldly cares, to be filled with care for God.

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Source
Stählin 3:140 · 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
Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/4/).

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