Excerpts from Theodotus 67.1

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

Summary: They read Paul's “when we were in the flesh” as referring to the weakness produced by Wisdom.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:129

»Ὅτε ἦμεν ἐν τῇ σαρκί«, φησὶν ὁ ἀπόστολος, ὥσπερ ἔξω τοῦ σώματος ἤδη λαλῶν. σάρκα οὖν λέγειν αὐτόν φησιν ἐκείνην τὴν ἀσθένειαν, τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς ἄνω γυναικὸς προβολήν.

English · Claude translation

“When we were in the flesh,” says the apostle, as if already speaking outside the body. He says, then, that by flesh he means that weakness, the emanation from the woman above.

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Source

Stählin 3:129 · 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

Rom 7:5 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Heresy

Notes

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (breathing and accent missing on the first word): »Οτε ἦμεν → »Ὅτε ἦμεν.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 67.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/67/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 67.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/67/1/).

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