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Excerpts from Theodotus 13.1

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

Summary: The Son is the heavenly bread and spiritual food that gives life through eating and knowledge.

Greek text · Stählin 3:111

Οὗτός ἐστιν »ἄρτος ἐπουράνιος« καὶ »πνευματικὴ τροφὴ« ζωῆς παρεκτικὴ κατὰ τὴν βρῶσιν καὶ γνῶσιν, »τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων«. τῆς ἐκκλησίας δηλονότι.

English · Claude translation

This is the “heavenly bread” and the “spiritual food” that gives life by eating and by knowledge, “the light of men,” that is, of the church.

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Source
Stählin 3:111 · 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, Eucharist

Notes

Translation notes

  • The allusions are John 6:31–33, 1 Cor 10:3, and John 1:4. Clement plays on βρῶσις (“eating”) and γνῶσις (“knowledge”).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/13/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 13.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/13/1/).

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