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Excerpts from Theodotus 56.5

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

Summary: Israel means the spiritual man who sees God, son of the free woman, not of Hagar.

Greek text · Stählin 3:126

Ἰσραὴλ δὲ ἀλληγορεῖται ὁ πνευματικὸς ὁ ὀψόμενος τὸν θεὸν ὁ τοῦ πιστοῦ Ἀβραὰμ υἱὸς γνήσιος ὁ »ἐκ τῆς ἐλευθέρας«. οὐχ ὁ »κατὰ σάρκα«, ὁ ἐκ τῆς δούλης τῆς Αἰγυπτίας.

English · Claude translation

Israel is allegorized as the spiritual man who will see God, the true son of faithful Abraham, the one “from the free woman,” not the one “according to the flesh,” from the Egyptian slave woman.

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Source
Stählin 3:126 · 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
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Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusion is Gal 4:22–23. “Israel” was interpreted as “one who sees God.”

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 56.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/56/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 56.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/56/5/).

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