Excerpts from Theodotus 72.2

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

Summary: Good powers are like the king's soldiers; evil ones like robbers who seized their swords.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:130

οἳ μὲν γὰρ στρατιώταις ἐοίκασι, συμμαχοῦντες ἡμῖν, ὡς ἂν ὑπηρέται θεοῦ, οἳ δὲ λῃσταῖς· ὁ γὰρ πονηρὸς οὐ παρὰ βασιλέως ἐζώσατο λαβὼν τὴν μάχαιραν, ἑαυτῷ δὲ ἐξ ἀπονοίας ἁρπάσας.

English · Claude translation

For some are like soldiers, fighting on our side as God's servants; others like robbers; for the evil one did not gird himself with a sword received from the king, but seized it for himself in his madness.

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Source: Stählin 3:130 · 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.
Topics: Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 72.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/72/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 72.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/72/2/).

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