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Excerpts from Theodotus 61.7

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

Summary: Death was tricked: when it seized the body, the Savior destroyed death and raised the body, freed from passions.

Greek text · Stählin 3:127

δόλῳ δὲ ὁ θάνατος κατεστρατηγήθη· ἀποθανόντος γὰρ τοῦ σώματος καὶ κρατήσαντος αὐτὸ τοῦ θανάτου, ἀναστείλας τὴν ἐπελθοῦσαν ἀκτῖνα τῆς δυνάμεως ὁ σωτὴρ ἀπώλεσε μὲν τὸν θάνατον. τὸ δὲ θνητὸν σῶμα ἀποβαλὼν πάθη ἀνέστησεν.

English · Claude translation

But death was outgeneraled by a stratagem. For when the body had died and death had taken hold of it, the Savior, drawing back the ray of power that had come upon it, destroyed death, and raised the mortal body, having cast off the passions.

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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.
Scripture
Extrabiblical texts
  • Ign. Eph. 19.1 (To the Ephesians) · echo, low confidence
Topics
Heresy, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The motif of death deceived is widespread in early Christian writing (compare Ign. Eph. 19.1).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 61.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/61/7/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 61.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/61/7/).

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