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Excerpts from Theodotus 8.4

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

Summary: The darkness that did not grasp him is the apostates, the rest of mankind who did not know him, and death, which could not hold him.

Greek text · Stählin 3:108–109

»καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸν οὐ κατέλαβεν«, οἱ ἀποστατήσαντες, καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων οὐκ ἔγνωσαν αὐτόν, καὶ ὁ θάνατος οὐ κατέσχεν αὐτόν.

English · Claude translation

“And the darkness did not overcome him”: the apostates, and the rest of mankind did not know him, and death did not hold him.

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Source
Stählin 3:108–109 · 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. 8.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/8/4/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 8.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/8/4/).

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