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Prophetic Extracts 20.3

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

Summary: Those who do the Father's will are Christ's brothers; call no one on earth father, for the true Father is in heaven.

Greek text · Stählin 3:142

»ἀδελφοί μου γάρ«, φησὶν ὁ κύριος, »καὶ συγκληρονόμοι οἱ ποιοῦντες τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πατρός μου.« »μὴ καλέσητε οὖν ἑαυτοῖς πατέρα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς·« δεσπόται γὰρ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἐν δὲ οὐρανοῖς ὁ πατήρ, »ἐξ οὗ πᾶσα πατριὰ ἔν τε οὐρανοῖς καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.«

English · Claude translation

“For my brothers,” says the Lord, “and joint heirs are those who do the will of my Father.” “So call no one on earth your father”; for there are masters on earth, but in heaven is the Father, “from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.”

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Source
Stählin 3:142 · 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).
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are a form of Matt 12:50, Matt 23:9, and Eph 3:15.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 20.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/20/3/).

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