Excerpts from Theodotus 4.2

Summary: Christ was and is the light above, the same that appeared in the flesh,

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Greek text · Stählin 3:106

αὐτὸς γὰρ καὶ ἄνω φῶς ἦν καὶ ἔστι τὸ ἐπιφανὲν ἐν σαρκὶ καὶ τὸ ἐνταῦθα ὀφθὲν οὐχ ὕστερον τοῦ ἄνω.

For he himself was light above, and is that which appeared in flesh; and what was seen here is not later than what is above,

Source: Stählin 3:106 · 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

Digital text corrected (breathing and accent missing): φῶς ἦν καὶ ἐστὶ τὸ → φῶς ἦν καὶ ἔστι τὸ.

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/4/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 4.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/4/2/).