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Excerpts from Theodotus 19.3

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

Summary: The Lord is life; Paul's “new man created according to God” means Christ.

Greek text · Stählin 3:112–113

ὃ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ, ζωή ἐστιν«· ζωὴ δὲ ὁ κύριος. καὶ ὁ Παῦλος »ἔνδυσαι τὸν καινὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν κατὰ θεὸν κτισθέντα«. οἷον εἰς αὐτὸν πίστευσον τὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ »κατὰ θεόν«, τὸν ἐν θεῷ λόγον, κτισθέντα.

English · Claude translation

what came into being in him is life”; and the Lord is life. And Paul: “Put on the new man, created according to God,” as if to say, believe in him who was created by God “according to God,” the Word in God.

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Source
Stählin 3:112–113 · 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.
Scripture
Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are John 1:3–4 and Eph 4:24.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 19.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/19/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 19.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/19/3/).

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