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Excerpts from Theodotus 59.3

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

Summary: The psychic Christ was invisible, but the one coming into the world had to be seen, touched, and have a perceptible body.

Greek text · Stählin 3:126

ἀλλὰ καὶ οὗτος ὁ ψυχικὸς Χριστός. ὃν ἐνεδύσατο, ἀόρατος ἦν. ἔδει δὲ τὸν εἰς κόσμον ἀφικνούμενον. ἐφʼ ᾧτε ὀφθῆναι, κρατηθῆναι, πολιτεύσασθαι, καὶ αἰσθητοῦ σώματος ἀνέχεσθαι.

English · Claude translation

But this psychic Christ too, whom he put on, was invisible. And the one arriving in the world had to be seen, held, live among people, and bear a sensible body.

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Source
Stählin 3:126 · 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.
Scripture
Topics
Heresy, Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 59.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/59/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 59.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/59/3/).

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