Excerpts from Theodotus 49.2

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

Summary: His blessing of the Sabbath shows that he labored unwillingly.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:123

τεκμήριον δὲ μάλιστα τοῦ ἀκουσίου τὸ εὐλογεῖν τὸ σάββατον καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν πόνων ἀνάπαυσιν ὑπερασπάζεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

The chief evidence of his unwillingness is his blessing the Sabbath and his warm welcome of rest from labors.

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Source

Stählin 3:123 · 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

Gen 2:3 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 49.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/49/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 49.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/49/2/).

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