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Excerpts from Theodotus 19.1

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

Summary: The Word became flesh not only at the incarnation, but also, in a sense, when he became Son in the beginning, by limitation, not in substance.

Greek text · Stählin 3:112

»Καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο«, οὐ κατὰ τὴν παρουσίαν μόνον ἄνθρωπος γενόμενος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν ἀρχῇ ὁ ἐν ταὐτότητι λόγος, κατὰ περιγραφὴν καὶ οὐ κατʼ οὐσίαν γενόμενος [ὁ] υἱός.

English · Claude translation

“And the Word became flesh,” not only by becoming man at his coming, but also in the beginning the Word in identity became Son, by circumscription and not by substance.

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Source
Stählin 3:112 · 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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Topics
Christology

Notes

Translation notes

  • The bracketed article in the Greek is the editor's deletion.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/19/1/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 19.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/19/1/).

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