Excerpts from Theodotus 73.3

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

Summary: Man, weak and inclined to evil, sides with his enemies, and so suffers more.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:130

προσέτι δὲ καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ὑπὲρ οὗ ἡ μάχη, ἀσθενὲς ὂν ζῷον, εὐεπίφορόν ἐστι πρὸς τὸ χεῖρον καὶ τοῖς μισοῦσι συλλαμβανόμενον· ὅθεν καὶ πλείω τὰ κακὰ ὑπάρχει αὐτῷ.

English · Claude translation

And besides, man, for whom the battle is fought, being a weak creature, is easily inclined to the worse and takes the side of those who hate him; hence the evils that befall him are more.

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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: Ethics

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 73.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/73/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 73.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/73/3/).

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