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Excerpts from Theodotus 10.5

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

Summary: The first-created were perfect from the start; the Son is the unapproachable light, beyond what any eye or heart has known.

Greek text · Stählin 3:109–110

οὐδʼ ὑπολείπεταί τις αὐτοῖς προκοπή, ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἀπειληφότων τὸ τέλειον ἅμα τῇ πρώτῃ γενέσει παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ. καὶ ὃ μὲν »φῶς ἀπρόσιτον« εἴρηται, ὡς »μονογενὴς« καὶ »πρωτότοκος«. »ἃ ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ εἶδε καὶ οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσεν οὐδὲ ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου ἀνέβη«. οὐδὲ ἔσται τις τοιοῦτος, οὔτε τῶν πρωτοκτίστων οὔτε ἀνθρώπων.

English · Claude translation

Nor is any advancement left for them, since from the beginning, together with their first coming into being, they received perfection from God through the Son. And he is called “unapproachable light,” as “only-begotten” and “firstborn,” “what eye has not seen and ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man.” Nor will anyone be such, either of the first-created or of human beings.

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Source
Stählin 3:109–110 · 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.
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Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are 1 Tim 6:16 and 1 Cor 2:9.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/5/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/5/).

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