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Excerpts from Theodotus 15.1

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

Summary: Paul's “image of the heavenly” shows that there are spiritual bodies.

Greek text · Stählin 3:111

»Ὡς δὲ ἐφορέσαμεν τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ χοϊκοῦ, φορέσωμεν καὶ τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου« τοῦ πνευματικοῦ, κατὰ προκοπὴν τελειούμενοι. πλὴν πάλιν εἰκόνα λέγει, ὡς εἶναι σώματα πνευματικά.

English · Claude translation

“As we have borne the image of the earthy, let us also bear the image of the heavenly,” the spiritual, being perfected by advancement. But again he says “image,” so that there are spiritual bodies.

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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.
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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is 1 Cor 15:49 (with the hortatory reading “let us bear”).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/15/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 15.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/15/1/).

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