Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 27.2

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

Summary: The soul's body is laid aside in the intelligible world, beside the angels who offer up prayers.

Greek text · Stählin 3:115–116

ἀποτίθεται δὲ τοῦτο τὸ σῶμα, τὸ πέταλον τὸ ἀβαρὲς γενόμενον, ἐντὸς τοῦ καταπετάσματος τοῦ δευτέρου, ἐν τῷ νοητῷ κόσμῳ, ὅ ἐστι δεύτερον ὁλοσχερὲς καταπέτασμα τοῦ παντός, παρὰ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τοῦ θυμιάματος, παρὰ τοὺς λειτουργοὺς τῶν ἀναφερομένων εὐχῶν ἀγγέλους.

English · Claude translation

This body, the plate that has become weightless, is laid aside within the second veil, in the intelligible world, which is the second, complete veil of the universe, beside the altar of incense, beside the angels who are ministers of the prayers offered up.

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Source
Stählin 3:115–116 · 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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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/27/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 27.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/27/2/).

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