Excerpts from Theodotus 53.5

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

Summary: The spiritual seed in Adam is the bone full of marrow; from Adam come three kinds of people: first the irrational,

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Greek text · Stählin 3:124

πρῶτον οὖν σπέρμα πνευματικὸν τὸ ἐν τῷ Ἀδὰμ προέβαλεν ἡ Σοφία, ἵνα ᾖ τὸ ὀστοῦν. ἡ λογικὴ καὶ οὐρανία ψυχή, μὴ κενή, ἀλλὰ μυελοῦ γέμουσα πνευματικοῦ. Ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ τρεῖς φύσεις γεννῶνται, πρώτη μὲν ἡ ἄλογος.

English · Claude translation

First, then, Wisdom put forth the spiritual seed that was in Adam, so that it might be the bone, the rational and heavenly soul, not empty but full of spiritual marrow. From Adam three natures are born: first the irrational,

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Source: Stählin 3:124 · 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.
Topics: Heresy

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 53.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/53/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 53.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/53/5/).

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