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Excerpts from Theodotus 18.2

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

Summary: After rising, Christ preached to the righteous at rest and transferred them; his coming on earth was a shadow of his glory, a shadow that illuminates.

Greek text · Stählin 3:112

ὅθεν ἀναστὰς ὁ κύριος εὐηγγελίσατο τοὺς δικαίους τοὺς ἐν τῇ ἀναπαύσει καὶ μετέστησεν αὐτοὺς καὶ μετέθηκεν, καὶ πάντες »ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ αὐτοῦ ζήσονται«. σκιὰ γὰρ τῆς δόξης τοῦ σωτῆρος τῆς παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ἡ παρουσία ἡ ἐνταῦθα· φωτὸς δὲ σκιὰ οὐ σκότος, ἀλλὰ φωτισμός ἐστιν.

English · Claude translation

Hence, when he rose, the Lord preached the good news to the righteous who were at rest, and moved and transferred them, and all “will live in his shadow.” For the coming here is a shadow of the Savior's glory that is with the Father; and the shadow of light is not darkness but illumination.

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Source
Stählin 3:112 · 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
Christology, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Lam 4:20 (LXX). The allusion is to Christ's preaching to the dead (1 Pet 3:19).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/18/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 18.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/18/2/).

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