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Excerpts from Theodotus 86.3

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

Summary: The sealed are the children already in bed and the wise virgins who enter the prepared good things, while the others are shut out.

Greek text · Stählin 3:133

οὗτοί εἰσιν »τὰ παιδία τὰ ἤδη ἐν τῇ κοίτῃ συναναπαυόμενα« καὶ »αἱ παρθένοι αἱ φρόνιμοι«, αἷς αἱ λοιπαὶ αἱ μέλλουσαι οὐ συνεισῆλθον εἰς τὰ »ἡτοιμασμένα ἀγαθά, εἰς ἃ ἐπιθυμοῦσιν ἄγγελοι παρακύψαι«.

English · Claude translation

These are “the children already resting together in bed” and “the wise virgins,” with whom the others, who delayed, did not enter into “the good things prepared, into which angels long to look.”

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Source
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.
Scripture
Topics
Baptism, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are Luke 11:7, Matt 25:1–12, 1 Cor 2:9, and 1 Pet 1:12.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 86.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/86/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 86.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/86/3/).

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