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Excerpts from Theodotus 3.2

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

Summary: When Christ breathed the Spirit on the apostles, he blew away the earthly dust and rekindled their spark.

Greek text · Stählin 3:106

καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἐμφυσῶν τὸ πνεῦμα τοῖς ἀποστόλοις τὸν μὲν χοῦν, καθάπερ τέφραν, ἀπεφύσα καὶ ἐχώριζεν, ἐξῆπτε δὲ τὸν σπινθῆρα καὶ ἐζωπύρει.

English · Claude translation

And after the resurrection, breathing the Spirit on the apostles, he blew away the dust like ashes and separated it, but kindled the spark and brought it to life.

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Source
Stählin 3:106 · 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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Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/3/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 3.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/3/2/).

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