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Excerpts from Theodotus 41.3

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

Summary: They apply “let your light shine” and “the light that enlightens every man” to the spiritual seed alone.

Greek text · Stählin 3:119

διὰ τοῦτο ὁ σωτὴρ λέγει »λαμψάτω τὸ φῶς ὑμῶν«, μηνύων περὶ τοῦ φωτὸς τοῦ φανέντος καὶ μορφώσαντος, περὶ οὗ ὁ ἀπόστολος λέγει· »ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον«, τὸν τοῦ διαφόρου σπέρματος.

English · Claude translation

That is why the Savior says, “Let your light shine,” indicating the light that appeared and gave form, about which the apostle says, “which enlightens every man coming into the world,” that is, the man of the superior seed.

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Source
Stählin 3:119 · 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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Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Matt 5:16 and John 1:9 (attributed to “the apostle”).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 41.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/41/3/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 41.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/41/3/).

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