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Excerpts from Theodotus 13.4

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

Summary: “The bread I will give is my flesh” means either what nourishes the flesh in the Eucharist, or, better, his body the church.

Greek text · Stählin 3:111

»ὁ δὲ ἄρτος ὃν ἐγὼ δώσω«, φησίν, »ἡ σάρξ μού ἐστιν«, ἤτοι ᾧ τρέφεται ἡ σὰρξ διὰ τῆς εὐχαριστίας ἤ, ὅπερ καὶ μᾶλλον. ἡ σὰρξ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἐστιν, »ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἡ ἐκκλησία«.

English · Claude translation

“The bread that I will give,” he says, “is my flesh,” either that by which the flesh is nourished through the Eucharist, or, which is rather the case, the flesh is his body, “which is the church.”

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Source
Stählin 3:111 · 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
Eucharist

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are John 6:51 and Col 1:24 (Eph 1:23).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/13/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 13.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/13/4/).

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