Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 85.3

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

Summary: We must put on the Lord's armor, which quenches the devil's darts.

Greek text · Stählin 3:132–133

δεῖ οὖν ὡπλίσθαι τοῖς κυριακοῖς ὅπλοις ἔχοντας τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἄτρωτον, »ὅπλοις σβέσαι τὰ βέλη τοῦ διαβόλου δυναμένοις«, ὥς φησιν ὁ ἀπόστολος.

English · Claude translation

So we must be armed with the Lord's weapons, keeping body and soul unwounded, with “weapons able to quench the darts of the devil,” as the apostle says.

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Source
Stählin 3:132–133 · 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
Topics
Baptism, Ethics

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a free form of Eph 6:16.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 85.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/85/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 85.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/85/3/).

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