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Excerpts from Theodotus 42.3

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

Summary: They read the saying about taking up the cross as Christ's taking up Jesus' body, which shares the church's substance.

Greek text · Stählin 3:120

ὅθεν εἴρηται· »ὃς οὐκ αἴρει τὸν σταυρὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀκολουθεῖ μοι. οὐκ ἔστι μου ἀδελφός.« ᾖρεν οὖν τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, ὅπερ ὁμοούσιον ἦν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ.

English · Claude translation

Hence it is said, “Whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not my brother.” So he took up the body of Jesus, which was of the same substance as the church.

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Source
Stählin 3:120 · 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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Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a form of Matt 10:38 (Luke 14:27), with “my brother” for “worthy of me.”

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 42.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/42/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 42.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/42/3/).

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