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Excerpts from Theodotus 73.2

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

Summary: They are like hirelings, not like the good shepherd who lays down his life.

Greek text · Stählin 3:130

οὐ γάρ εἰσι τέλεον προνοητικοί, ὥσπερ ὁ ἀγαθὸς ποιμήν, ἀλλὰ μισθωτῷ παραπλήσιος ἕκαστος, τὸν λύκον ὁρῶντι προσιόντα καὶ φεύγοντι καὶ οὐ προθύμῳ τὴν ψυχὴν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἰδίων προβάτων ἐπιδιδόναι.

English · Claude translation

For they are not perfectly provident like the good shepherd, but each is like a hireling, who sees the wolf coming and flees and is not eager to give his life for his own sheep.

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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.
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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 73.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/73/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 73.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/73/2/).

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