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Excerpts from Theodotus 14.2

Clement of Alexandria · Excerpts from Theodotus · ca. 200 · Alexandria · Read in context

Summary: Angels and souls are bodies of a kind, as Paul speaks of a psychic and a spiritual body.

Greek text · Stählin 3:111

καὶ οἱ ἄγγελοι σώματά εἰσιν· ὁρῶνται γοῦν. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ σῶμα. ὁ γοῦν ἀπόστολος· »σπείρεται μὲν γὰρ σῶμα ψυχικόν, ἐγείρεται δὲ σῶμα πνευματικόν.«

English · Claude translation

Angels too are bodies; at any rate they are seen. And the soul too is a body. At any rate the apostle says, “It is sown a psychic body, it is raised a spiritual body.”

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Source
Stählin 3:111 · 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.
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Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is 1 Cor 15:44; “psychic” (ψυχικόν) is usually rendered “natural.”

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/14/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 14.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/14/2/).

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