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Prophetic Extracts 12.3

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

Summary: Christ limits both our busyness and our anxiety: worry adds nothing to our life.

Greek text · Stählin 3:140

οὕτως οὐ μόνον τὰς ἀσχολίας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς φροντίδας περιγράφει. »οὐ γὰρ τῇ ἡλικίᾳ«, φησίν, »ἐκ τοῦ φροντίζειν προσθεῖναί τι δύνασθε.«

English · Claude translation

So he limits not only our occupations but also our worries. “For you cannot,” he says, “add anything to your stature by worrying.”

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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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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 12.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/12/3/).

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