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Excerpts from Theodotus 86.1

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

Summary: Christ asked whose image was on the coin, so that each should be given to its owner.

Greek text · Stählin 3:133

Ἐπὶ τοῦ προσκομισθέντος νομίσματος ὁ κύριος εἶπεν οὐ τίνος τὸ κτῆμα, ἀλλά· »τίνος ἡ εἰκὼν καὶ ἡ ἐπιγραφή; Καίσαρος·« ἵνα οὗ ἐστιν, ἐκείνῳ δοθῇ.

English · Claude translation

About the coin that was brought, the Lord said not “Whose property is it?” but “Whose image and inscription? Caesar's,” so that it might be given to the one to whom it belongs.

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Stählin 3:133 · 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. 86.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/86/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 86.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/86/1/).

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