Excerpts from Theodotus 67.2

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

Summary: Christ's saying to Salome, that death lasts as long as women bear children, does not condemn birth,

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Greek text · Stählin 3:129

καὶ ὅταν ὁ σωτὴρ πρὸς Σαλώμην λέγῃ μέχρι τότε εἶναι θάνατον, ἄχρις ἂν αἱ γυναῖκες τίκτωσιν, οὐ τὴν γένεσιν κακίζων ἔλεγεν, ἀναγκαίαν οὖσαν διὰ τὴν σωτηρίαν τῶν πιστευόντων·

English · Claude translation

And when the Savior says to Salome that there will be death as long as women bear children, he did not say it condemning birth, which is necessary for the salvation of believers;

About this passage

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.
Topics: Heresy, Marriage

Notes

Translation notes

The saying is from the Gospel according to the Egyptians, which Clement also discusses in Strom. 3.45, 63–64.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 67.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/67/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 67.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/67/2/).

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