Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 86.2

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

Summary: The believer bears God's name as inscription and the Spirit as image; sealed like marked livestock, the faithful soul bears the marks of Christ.

Greek text · Stählin 3:133

οὕτως καὶ ὁ πιστός· ἐπιγραφὴν μὲν ἔχει διὰ Χριστοῦ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸ δὲ πνεῦμα ὡς εἰκόνα. καὶ τὰ ἄλογα ζῷα διὰ σφραγῖδος δείκνυσι τίνος ἐστὶν ἕκαστον, καὶ ἐκ τῆς σφραγῖδος ἐκδικεῖται· οὕτως καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ ἡ πιστὴ τὸ τῆς ἀληθείας λαβοῦσα σφράγισμα »τὰ στίγματα τοῦ Χριστοῦ« περιφέρει.

English · Claude translation

So too the believer: through Christ he has the name of God as an inscription, and the Spirit as an image. Even irrational animals show by a seal whose each one is, and are claimed by the seal; so too the faithful soul, having received the seal of truth, carries “the marks of Christ.”

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Source
Stählin 3:133 · 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

Notes

Translation notes

  • The seal is baptism. The quotation is Gal 6:17.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 86.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/86/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 86.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/86/2/).

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