Excerpts from Theodotus 81.1

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

Summary: Fire is of two kinds: bodily fire for bodies, and a pure, bodiless fire that touches demons and the devil.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:131–132

Τοῦ πυρὸς τὸ μὲν σωματικὸν σωμάτων ἅπτεται πάντων, τὸ δὲ καθαρὸν καὶ ἀσώματον ἀσωμάτων φασὶν ἅπτεσθαι, οἷον δαιμόνων, ἀγγέλων τῆς πονηρίας, αὐτοῦ τοῦ διαβόλου. οὕτως ἐστὶ τὸ ἐπουράνιον καὶ τὸ ἐπίγειον πῦρ δισσὸν τὴν φύσιν, τὸ μὲν νοητόν, τὸ δὲ αἰσθητόν.

English · Claude translation

Of fire, the bodily kind touches all bodies, but the pure and bodiless kind, they say, touches bodiless things, such as demons, angels of wickedness, and the devil himself. So the heavenly and earthly fire is twofold in nature, the one intelligible, the other sensible.

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Source: Stählin 3:131–132 · 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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Digital text corrected (stray character in the digital text): τὸ ἐπίγειον> πῦρ → τὸ ἐπίγειον πῦρ.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 81.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/81/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 81.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/81/1/).

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