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Excerpts from Theodotus 62.3

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

Summary: Christ's soul committed itself to the Father at his death; the spiritual element he saves himself.

Greek text · Stählin 3:128

αὐτὴ γὰρ ἡ ψυχὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ πάσχοντος τοῦ σώματος ἑαυτὴν εἰς τὰς χεῖρας τοῦ πατρὸς παρακατέθετο. τὸ δʼ ἐν τῷ ὀστέῳ πνευματικὸν οὐκέτι παρακατατίθεται, ἀλλʼ αὐτὸς σῴζει.

English · Claude translation

For the soul of Christ itself, while the body suffered, committed itself into the hands of the Father. But the spiritual in the bone is no longer committed, but he himself saves it.

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Source
Stählin 3:128 · 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

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 62.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/62/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 62.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/62/3/).

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