Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 14.4

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

Summary: The parable of Lazarus and the rich man, with its fingers and tongue, shows the soul has a kind of body.

Greek text · Stählin 3:111

ἄντικρυς δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λαζάρου καὶ τοῦ πλουσίου διὰ τῶν σωματικῶν μελῶν σῶμα εἶναι δείκνυται ἡ ψυχή.

English · Claude translation

And from Lazarus and the rich man the soul is plainly shown to be a body, through its bodily members.

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Stählin 3:111 · 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
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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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/14/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 14.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/14/4/).

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