Excerpts from Theodotus 10.5
Summary: The first-created were perfect from the start; the Son is the unapproachable light, beyond what any eye or heart has known.
Greek text · Stählin 3:109–110
οὐδʼ ὑπολείπεταί τις αὐτοῖς προκοπή, ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἀπειληφότων τὸ τέλειον ἅμα τῇ πρώτῃ γενέσει παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ. καὶ ὃ μὲν »φῶς ἀπρόσιτον« εἴρηται, ὡς »μονογενὴς« καὶ »πρωτότοκος«. »ἃ ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ εἶδε καὶ οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσεν οὐδὲ ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου ἀνέβη«. οὐδὲ ἔσται τις τοιοῦτος, οὔτε τῶν πρωτοκτίστων οὔτε ἀνθρώπων.
English · Claude translation
Nor is any advancement left for them, since from the beginning, together with their first coming into being, they received perfection from God through the Son. And he is called “unapproachable light,” as “only-begotten” and “firstborn,” “what eye has not seen and ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man.” Nor will anyone be such, either of the first-created or of human beings.
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- The quotations are 1 Tim 6:16 and 1 Cor 2:9.
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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/5/).
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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/5/).
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