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Excerpts from Theodotus 1.3

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

Summary: Clement's own view: the elect seed is a spark, the pupil of the eye, a mustard seed, and leaven,

Greek text · Stählin 3:105

Τὸ ἐκλεκτὸν σπέρμα φαμὲν καὶ σπινθῆρα ζωπυρούμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ Λόγου καὶ κόρην ὀφθαλμοῦ καὶ κόκκον σινάπεως καὶ ζύμην τὰ

English · Claude translation

We say that the elect seed is both a spark kindled by the Word, and the pupil of the eye, and a grain of mustard seed, and leaven, which unites in faith the kinds that

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Stählin 3:105 · 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • Here Clement speaks (“we say”). The images are from Deut 32:10 (the pupil of the eye), Matt 13:31, and Matt 13:33. The sentence continues in the next section.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/1/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/1/3/).

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