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Excerpts from Theodotus 80.3

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

Summary: Sealed in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the baptized is beyond all hostile powers and bears the heavenly image.

Greek text · Stählin 3:131

διὰ γὰρ πατρὸς καὶ υἱοῦ καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος σφραγισθεὶς ἀνεπίληπτός ἐστι πάσῃ τῇ ἄλλῃ δυνάμει καὶ διὰ τριῶν ὀνομάτων πάσης τῆς ἐν φθορᾷ τριάδος ἀπηλλάγη· »φορέσας τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ χοϊκοῦ, τότε φορεῖ τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου.«

English · Claude translation

For the one sealed through Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is beyond the reach of every other power, and through three names he has been set free from the whole triad in corruption. “Having borne the image of the earthy, he then bears the image of the heavenly.”

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Source
Stählin 3:131 · 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.
Scripture
Topics
Baptism, Trinity

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is a free form of 1 Cor 15:49.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 80.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/80/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 80.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/80/3/).

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