Excerpts from Theodotus 10.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Stählin 3:109

Ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ τὰ πνευματικὰ καὶ νοερά, οὐδὲ οἱ ἀρχάγγελοι οὐδὲ οἱ πρωτόκτιστοι οὐδὲ μὴν οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ἄμορφος καὶ ἀνείδεος καὶ ἀσχημάτιστος καὶ ἀσώματός ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ μορφὴν ἔχει ἰδίαν καὶ σῶμα ἀνὰ λόγον τῆς ὑπεροχῆς τῶν πνευματικῶν ἁπάντων, ὡς δὲ καὶ οἱ πρωτόκτιστοι ἀνὰ λόγον τῆς ὑπεροχῆς τῶν ὑπʼ αὐτοὺς οὐσιῶν.

English · Claude translation

But neither spiritual and intellectual beings, nor the archangels, nor the first-created, nor indeed he himself is without form, shape, figure, and body; but he has a form of his own and a body corresponding to his preeminence over all spiritual beings, as the first-created too have bodies corresponding to their preeminence over the beings below them.

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

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

Notes

Translation notes

“He himself” is probably the Son. “The first-created” (πρωτόκτιστοι) are the highest angels, identified below with seven beings.

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/1/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/1/).