Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 61.8

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

Summary: The psychic are raised; the believing spiritual are saved beyond them, their souls being wedding garments. The psychic Christ sits at the Demiurge's right hand,

Greek text · Stählin 3:127–128

τὰ ψυχικὰ μὲν οὖν οὕτως ἀνίσταται καὶ ἀνασῴζεται. πιστεύσαντα δὲ τὰ πνευματικὰ ὑπὲρ ἐκεῖνα σῴζεται. »ἐνδύματα γάμων« τὰς ψυχὰς λαβόντα. Κάθηται μὲν οὖν ὁ ψυχικὸς Χριστὸς ἐν δεξιᾷ τοῦ Δημιουργοῦ.

English · Claude translation

The psychic, then, are raised and saved in this way; but the spiritual who have believed are saved beyond them, having received their souls as “wedding garments.” The psychic Christ, then, sits at the right hand of the Demiurge,

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Source
Stählin 3:127–128 · 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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Topics
Heresy, Eschatology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 61.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/61/8/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 61.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/61/8/).

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