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Excerpts from Theodotus 50.1

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

Summary: They say the Demiurge formed from matter an earthy, irrational soul, the man “according to the image.”

Greek text · Stählin 3:123

»Λαβὼν χοῦν ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς«, οὐ τῆς ξηρᾶς, ἀλλὰ τῆς πολυμεροῦς καὶ ποικίλης ὕλης μέρος, ψυχὴν γεώδη καὶ [ὑλικὴν ἐτεκτήνατο ἄλογον καὶ τῇ τῶν θηρίων ὁμοούσιον· οὗτος ὁ »κατʼ εἰκόνα« ἄνθρωπος.

English · Claude translation

“Taking dust from the earth,” not from the dry land but a part of the manifold and varied matter, he fashioned an earthy and material soul, irrational and of the same substance as that of the beasts. This is the man “according to the image.”

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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 2:7 · quotation, high confidence
  • Gen 1:26 · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Gen 2:7 and Gen 1:26. The Greek has an opening bracket that is not closed.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 50.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/50/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 50.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/50/1/).

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