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Excerpts from Theodotus 54.2

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

Summary: Seth; the three correspond to image, likeness, and spirit, and “the book of the generation of men” refers to them.

Greek text · Stählin 3:125

ἧς ἦν Σήθ. καὶ ὁ μὲν χοϊκός ἐστι »κατʼ εἰκόνα«. ὁ δὲ ψυχικὸς »καθʼ ὁμοίωσιν« θεοῦ, ὁ δὲ πνευματικὸς κατʼ ἰδίαν, ἐφʼ οἷς τρισὶν ἄνευ τῶν ἄλλων παίδων τοῦ Ἀδὰμ εἴρηται· »αὕτη ἡ βίβλος γενέσεως ἀνθρώπων.«

English · Claude translation

to which Seth belonged. And the earthy is “according to the image,” the psychic “according to the likeness” of God, and the spiritual according to its own nature; about these three, without the other children of Adam, it is said, “This is the book of the generation of men.”

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Stählin 3:125 · 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
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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. 54.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/54/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 54.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/54/2/).

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