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Excerpts from Theodotus 55.3

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

Summary: but only his material part; in this sense he is our father, the earthy first man.

Greek text · Stählin 3:125

καὶ διʼ αὐτοῦ μέν, οὐχ ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ δέ, προβάλλεται ἄμφω· τὸ δὲ ὑλικὸν αὐτοῦ ἐνεργὸν εἰς σπέρμα καὶ γένεσιν, ὡς ἂν τῷ σπέρματι συγκεκραμένον καὶ ταύτης ἐν ζωῇ τῆς ἁρμονίας ἀποστῆναι μὴ δυνάμενον. κατὰ τοῦτο πατὴρ ἡμῶν ὁ Ἀδάμ. »ὁ πρῶτος[δ᾿] ἄνθρωπος ἐκ γῆς χοϊκός«.

English · Claude translation

Both are put forth through him, but not by him; but his material part is active for seed and generation, as being mingled with the seed and unable to withdraw from this harmony while in life. In this sense Adam is our father: “the first man from the earth, earthy.”

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Stählin 3:125 · 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
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Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is 1 Cor 15:47. The bracketed letters in the Greek are the editor's deletion.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 55.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/55/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 55.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/55/3/).

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