Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 9.2

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

Summary: Some sayings are addressed to the called: the prodigal son, and those called from the roads to the wedding feast.

Greek text · Stählin 3:109

πάλιν ὅταν λέγῃ »ἐξέλθετε ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός μου«, τοῖς κλητοῖς λέγει· πάλιν τῷ ἐξ ἀποδημίας ἐλθόντι καὶ κατεδηδοκότι τὰ ὑπάρχοντα, ᾧ τὸν σιτευτὸν ἔθυσεν μόσχον, τὴν κλῆσιν λέγει. καὶ ὅπου ὁ βασιλεὺς εἰς τὸ δεῖπνον τοῦ γάμου τοὺς ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς κέκληκεν.

English · Claude translation

Again, when he says, “Go out from my Father's house,” he is speaking to the called. Again, to the one who came back from abroad and had devoured his property, for whom the father killed the fatted calf, he speaks of the calling; and where the king has called those on the roads to the wedding supper.

About this passage

Source
Stählin 3:109 · 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
Topics
Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

  • “Go out from my Father's house” is not an exact Gospel quotation (compare John 2:16). The allusions are Luke 15:13, 23 and Matt 22:9–10.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/9/2/).

The SBL abbreviation for this work has not been checked yet.

Plain text
Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 9.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/9/2/).

Download citation:BibTeX ·RIS (Zotero, EndNote)

Whole work:BibTeX ·RIS ·Markdown text

Report an error in this passage