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Excerpts from Theodotus 12.2

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

Summary: Angels are purified intellectual fire; intellectual light is a higher state, into which angels long to look,

Greek text · Stählin 3:110

καὶ οἱ μὲν ἄγγελοι νοερὸν πῦρ καὶ πνεύματα νοερά, τὴν οὐσίαν ἀποκεκαθαρμένοι, φῶς δὲ νοερὸν ἡ μεγίστη προκοπὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ νοεροῦ πυρὸς ἀποκεκαθαρμένου τέλεον, »εἰς ἃ ἐπιθυμοῦσιν ἄγγελοι παρακύψαι«.

English · Claude translation

The angels are intellectual fire and intellectual spirits, purified in substance; and intellectual light is the greatest advancement from intellectual fire completely purified, “into which angels long to look,”

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Source
Stählin 3:110 · 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.
Scripture
Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is 1 Pet 1:12; compare Ps 104:4 (Heb 1:7), “his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire.”

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/12/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 12.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/12/2/).

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