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Prophetic Extracts 12.2

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

Summary: Seek God's kingdom and all else will be added.

Greek text · Stählin 3:140

»ζητεῖτε«, γὰρ εἶπεν, »καὶ μεριμνᾶτε τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ταῦτα πάντα προστεθήσεται ὑμῖν· οἶδεν γὰρ ὁ πατὴρ ὧν χρείαν ἔχετε.«

English · Claude translation

For he said, “Seek and be concerned for the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added to you; for the Father knows what you need.”

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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
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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a free combination of Matt 6:33, 32 (Luke 12:30–31).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): »ζητεῖτε«. γὰρ εἶπεν → »ζητεῖτε«, γὰρ εἶπεν.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/2/).

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Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/2/).

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