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Excerpts from Theodotus 7.2

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

Summary: since the Father is known through the Son; love and knowledge are joined as Father and Son, Thought and Truth.

Greek text · Stählin 3:108

ὅτι »διʼ υἱοῦ ὁ πατὴρ ἐγνώσθη«. τὸ δὲ τῆς ἀγάπης πνεῦμα κέκραται τῷ τῆς γνώσεως, ὡς πατὴρ υἱῷ καὶ ἐνθύμησις ἀληθείᾳ. ἀπʼ ἀληθείας προελθὸν ὡς ἀπὸ ἐνθυμήσεως ἡ γνῶσις.

English · Claude translation

since “through the Son the Father was known.” And the spirit of love has been mingled with the spirit of knowledge, as Father with Son and Thought with Truth; the spirit of love came forth from Truth, as knowledge from Thought.

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Source
Stählin 3:108 · 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
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Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quoted saying echoes Matt 11:27 (John 1:18); it is not an exact quotation.

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/7/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/7/2/).

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