Excerpts from Theodotus 10.6 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: The angels see the Father's face, which is the Son; what sees and is seen must have some form, though they see with an intellectual eye.

Greek text · Stählin 3:110

οἳ δὲ »διὰ παντὸς τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρὸς βλέπουσιν«, πρόσωπον δὲ πατρὸς ὁ υἱός, διʼ οὗ γνωρίζεται ὁ πατήρ. τὸ τοίνυν ὁρῶν καὶ ὁρώμενον ἀσχημάτιστον εἶναι οὐ δύναται οὐδὲ ἀσώματον. ὁρῶσι δὲ ὀφθαλμῷ οὐκ αἰσθητῷ, ἀλλʼ οἵῳ παρέσχεν ὁ πατήρ, νοερῷ.

English · Claude translation

But they “always behold the face of the Father,” and the face of the Father is the Son, through whom the Father is made known. What sees and is seen, then, cannot be without figure or without body. They see not with a sensible eye, but with such an eye as the Father has given, an intellectual one.

About this passage

Source

Stählin 3:110 · 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.

Scripture

Matt 18:10 · quotation, high confidence
John 14:9 · echo, medium confidence

Topics

Christology

Cite this passage

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/6/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 10.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/10/6/).