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Prophetic Extracts 14.4

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

Summary: and self-control; blessed are those who hunger for righteousness, a hunger of the soul.

Greek text · Stählin 3:140–141

σωφροσύνη. »μακάριοι γὰρ οἱ πεινῶντες καὶ διψῶντες τὴν δικαιοσύνην τοῦ θεοῦ· οὗτοι γὰρ καὶ ἐμπλησθήσονται.« ψυχὴ δέ, ἀλλʼ οὐ σῶμα τὴν ὄρεξιν ταύτην λαμβάνει.

English · Claude translation

self-control. “For blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness of God; for they shall be filled.” And the soul, not the body, receives this appetite.

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Source
Stählin 3:140–141 · 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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Fasting

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (stray period in the digital text): ψυχὴ δέ. ἀλλʼ οὐ σῶμα → ψυχὴ δέ, ἀλλʼ οὐ σῶμα.

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Ecl. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-eclogae/14/4/).

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