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Excerpts from Theodotus 9.1

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

Summary: Faith differs in degree: the called may be led astray by the Antichrist, but not the elect.

Greek text · Stählin 3:109

Ἡ πίστις οὐ μία, ἀλλὰ διάφορος. ὁ γοῦν σωτήρ φησι· »γενηθήτω σοῦ κατὰ τὴν πίστιν·« ὅθεν εἴρηται τοὺς μὲν τῆς κλήσεως ἀνθρώπους κατὰ τὴν παρουσίαν τοῦ ἀντιχρίστου πλανηθήσεσθαι· ἀδύνατον δὲ τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς· διό φησι· »καὶ εἰ δυνατόν, τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς μου.«

English · Claude translation

Faith is not one but various. At any rate, the Savior says, “Let it be done according to your faith.” Hence it is said that people of the calling will be led astray at the coming of the Antichrist, but the elect cannot be; that is why he says, “and, if possible, my elect.”

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Stählin 3:109 · 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
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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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  • The quotations are a form of Matt 9:29 and Matt 24:24.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/9/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/9/1/).

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