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Excerpts from Theodotus 72.1

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

Summary: The Lord rescues us from the war of the powers, some for us and some against us, and gives us peace.

Greek text · Stählin 3:130

Ἀπὸ ταύτης τῆς στάσεως καὶ μάχης τῶν δυνάμεων ὁ κύριος ἡμᾶς ῥύεται καὶ παρέχει τὴν εἰρήνην ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν δυνάμεων καὶ τῆς τῶν ἀγγέλων παρατάξεως, ἣν οἳ μὲν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν, οἳ δὲ καθʼ ἡμῶν παρατάσσονται.

English · Claude translation

From this strife and battle of the powers the Lord rescues us and grants us peace from the battle line of powers and angels, some drawn up for us and some against us.

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Source
Stählin 3:130 · 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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Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 72.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/72/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 72.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/72/1/).

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