Excerpts from Theodotus 54.1

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

Summary: represented by Cain; second the rational and just, Abel; third the spiritual,

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Greek text · Stählin 3:124–125

ἧς ἦν Κάιν, δευτέρα δὲ ἡ λογικὴ καὶ ἡ δικαία, ἧς ἦν Ἄβελ· τρίτη δὲ ἡ πνευματική.

English · Claude translation

to which Cain belonged; second the rational and just, to which Abel belonged; and third the spiritual,

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Stählin 3:124–125 · 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 4:1 · allusion, medium confidence
Gen 4:2 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 54.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/54/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 54.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/54/1/).

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