Excerpts from Theodotus 76.1

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

Summary: Christ's birth frees us from Fate, his baptism from fire, his passion from passion, so that we may follow him in everything.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:130–131

Ὡς οὖν ἡ γέννησις τοῦ σωτῆρος γενέσεως ἡμᾶς καὶ Εἱμαρμένης ἐξέβαλεν, οὕτως καὶ τὸ βάπτισμα αὐτοῦ πυρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐξείλετο καὶ τὸ πάθος πάθους, ἵνα κατὰ πάντα ἀκολουθήσωμεν αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

As, then, the birth of the Savior cast us out of birth and Fate, so too his baptism took us out of fire, and his passion out of passion, so that we might follow him in all things.

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Source: Stählin 3:130–131 · 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.
Topics: Baptism, Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 76.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/76/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 76.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/76/1/).

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