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Excerpts from Theodotus 56.4

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

Summary: When the psychic are grafted into the olive tree and the Gentiles come in, all Israel will be saved.

Greek text · Stählin 3:125–126

ὅταν οὖν τὰ ψυχικὰ »ἐγκεντρισθῇ τῇ καλλιελαίῳ« εἰς πίστιν καὶ ἀφθαρσίαν καὶ μετάσχῃ »τῆς πιότητος τῆς ἐλαίας«. καὶ ὅταν »εἰσέλθῃ τὰ ἔθνη«. τότε »οὕτω πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ σωθήσεται«.

English · Claude translation

So when the psychic are “grafted into the good olive tree” for faith and incorruption and share in “the richness of the olive,” and when “the Gentiles come in,” then “so all Israel will be saved.”

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Stählin 3:125–126 · 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. 56.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/56/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 56.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/56/4/).

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