Excerpts from Theodotus 11.3

Summary: Heavenly beings are bodiless compared with earthly bodies, but bodily compared with the Son, as the Son is compared with the Father.

Greek text · Stählin 3:110

»ἄλλη δόξα ἐπουρανίων, ἄλλη ἐπιγείων, ἄλλη ἀγγέλων, ἄλλη ἀρχαγγέλων·« ὡς πρὸς τὴν σύγκρισιν τῶν τῇδε σωμάτων (οἷον ἄστρων) ἀσώματα καὶ ἀνείδεα, ἀλλʼ ὡς πρὸς τὴν σύγκρισιν τοῦ υἱοῦ σώματα μεμετρημένα καὶ αἰσθητά· οὕτως καὶ ὁ υἱὸς πρὸς τὸν πατέρα παραβαλλόμενος· καὶ δύναμιν μὲν ἰδίαν ἔχει ἕκαστον τῶν πνευματικῶν καὶ ἰδίαν οἰκονομίαν.

English · Claude translation

“One glory is of heavenly beings, another of earthly, another of angels, another of archangels.” Compared with bodies here (such as the stars) they are bodiless and formless; but compared with the Son they are measured and perceptible bodies; so too the Son compared with the Father. Each spiritual being has its own power and its own administration.

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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

1 Cor 15:40 · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 11.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/11/3/).

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Plain text

Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 11.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/11/3/).

Greek text · Stählin 3:110

English · Claude translation

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