Excerpts from Theodotus 59.2

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

Summary: At the Demiurge's realm he put on the psychic Christ foretold by the prophets and the law.

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Greek text · Stählin 3:126

ὃ κατὰ μικρὸν μορφοῦται διὰ γνώσεως· κατὰ δὲ τὸν Τόπον γενόμενος εὗρεν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸν ἐνδύσασθαι τὸν προκεκηρυγμένον, ὃν κατήγγελλον οἱ προφῆται καὶ ὁ νόμος. ὄντα εἰκόνα τοῦ Σωτῆρος.

English · Claude translation

and it is gradually formed through knowledge. And when he came to the Place, Jesus found Christ to put on, the one proclaimed beforehand, whom the prophets and the law announced, being an image of the Savior.

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Source: Stählin 3:126 · 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: Heresy, Christology

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Digital text corrected (misspelling in the digital text): Ἰησοῦς Κριστὸν → Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸν.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 59.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/59/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 59.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/59/2/).

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