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Excerpts from Theodotus 54.3

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

Summary: Seth, neither shepherd nor farmer, is spiritual; his son Enosh, who called on the Lord's name, belongs to heaven.

Greek text · Stählin 3:125

ὅτι δὲ πνευματικὸς ὁ Σήθ, οὔτε ποιμαίνει οὔτε γεωργεῖ, ἀλλὰ παῖδα καρποφορεῖ, ὡς τὰ πνευματικά· καὶ τοῦτον, ὃς »ἤλπισεν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομα κυρίου«, ἄνω βλέποντα. οὗ »τὸ πολίτευμα ἐν οὐρανῷ«, τοῦτον ὁ κόσμος οὐ χωρεῖ.

English · Claude translation

That Seth is spiritual is shown because he neither herds nor farms, but bears a child as fruit, as spiritual beings do; and this child, who “hoped to call on the name of the Lord,” looking upward, whose “citizenship is in heaven,” the world does not contain.

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Source
Stählin 3:125 · 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 allusions are Gen 4:26 (LXX), Phil 3:20, and Heb 11:38.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 54.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/54/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 54.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/54/3/).

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