Sophia Scriptura

Excerpts from Theodotus 19.2

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

Summary: The Word also became flesh by working through the prophets; the Savior is called child of the Word.

Greek text · Stählin 3:112

καὶ πάλιν σὰρξ ἐγένετο διὰ προφητῶν ἐνεργήσας· τέκνον δὲ τοῦ ἐν ταὐτότητι λόγου ὁ σωτὴρ εἴρηται· διὰ τοῦτο »ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν·

English · Claude translation

And again he became flesh by acting through the prophets. And the Savior is called the child of the Word in identity. That is why “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God;

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Source
Stählin 3:112 · 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.
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Christology

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 19.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/19/2/).

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Clement of Alexandria, Exc. 19.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/clement-excerpta/19/2/).

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