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Excerpts from Theodotus 61.3

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

Summary: The blood and water from Christ's side signify the saved substances freed from passion.

Greek text · Stählin 3:127

διὰ δὲ τῶν ἐκρυέντων ἐκ τῆς πλευρᾶς ἐδήλου ταῖς ἐκρύσεσι τῶν παθῶν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐμπαθῶν ἀπαθεῖς γενομένας τὰς οὐσίας σεσῶσθαι.

English · Claude translation

And by what flowed from his side he showed that, by the outflowing of the passions, the substances have been saved, having become free of passion instead of passionate.

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Stählin 3:127 · 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. 61.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/61/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 61.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/61/3/).

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