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Excerpts from Theodotus 85.1

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

Summary: After his baptism Christ was tempted among the wild beasts, as a pattern for us; having overcome, he was served by angels.

Greek text · Stählin 3:132

Αὐτίκα ὁ κύριος μετὰ τὸ βάπτισμα σαλεύεται εἰς ἡμέτερον τύπον καὶ γίνεται πρῶτον »μετὰ θηρίων« ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, εἶτα κρατήσας τούτων καὶ τοῦ ἄρχοντος αὐτῶν, ὡς ἂν ἤδη βασιλεὺς ἀληθής, ὑπʼ ἀγγέλων ἤδη διακονεῖται.

English · Claude translation

At once after baptism the Lord was shaken, as a type for us, and was first “with the wild beasts” in the desert; then, having overcome them and their ruler, as now a true king, he is at once served by angels.

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Source
Stählin 3:132 · 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
Baptism, Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 85.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/85/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 85.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/85/1/).

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