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Excerpts from Theodotus 53.1

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

Summary: This flesh is the tare sown among the good seed, the devil's seed, the serpent that strikes the heel,

Greek text · Stählin 3:124

Τοῦτο »ζιζάνιον« ὀνομάζεται συμφυὲς τῇ ψυχῇ, τῷ χρηστῷ σπέρματι, τοῦτο καὶ σπέρμα τοῦ διαβόλου ὡς ὁμοούσιον ἐκείνῳ καὶ ὄφις καὶ διαπτερνιστὴς καὶ λῃστὴς ἐπιτιθέμενος κεφαλῇ

English · Claude translation

This is called the “tare,” grown together with the soul, the good seed; this is also the seed of the devil, as being of the same substance with him, and the serpent, and the heel-biter, and a robber attacking the head

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Stählin 3:124 · 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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  • Digital text corrected (misplaced space at the opening quotation mark): Τοῦτο » ζιζάνιον« → Τοῦτο »ζιζάνιον«.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 53.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/53/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 53.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/53/1/).

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