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Excerpts from Theodotus 61.5

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

Summary: “I will go before you into Galilee” hints at the raising of the soul.

Greek text · Stählin 3:127

καὶ »προάξω ὑμᾶς« λέγει »τῇ τρίτῃ τῶν ἡμερῶν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν«· αὐτὸς γὰρ προάγει πάντα. καὶ τὴν ἀφανῶς σῳζομένην ψυχὴν ἀναστήσειν ᾐνίσσετο καὶ ἀποκαταστήσειν οὗ νῦν προάγει.

English · Claude translation

And he says, “I will go before you on the third day into Galilee”; for he goes before all things. And he hinted that he would raise the soul that is invisibly being saved and restore it where he now goes before.

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Source
Stählin 3:127 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a form of Matt 26:32 (Mark 14:28).

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (wrong breathing and accent on εἰς): εἶς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν → εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 61.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/61/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 61.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/61/5/).

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