Excerpts from Theodotus 10.2

Summary: Created beings have substance, but not bodies like those in this world.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:109

ὅλως γὰρ τὸ γενητὸν οὐκ ἀνούσιον μέν, οὐχ ὅμοιον δὲ μορφὴν καὶ σῶμα ἔχουσι τοῖς ἐν τῷδε τῷ κόσμῳ σώμασιν.

For in general what has come into being is not without substance, but they do not have form and body like the bodies in this world.

Source: Stählin 3:109 · 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
Text: As printed in Stählin, GCS 17. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
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: Christology

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/2/).